I can’t believe how convenient online dating is! Now my dream of
finding love can be crushed more efficiently and in the privacy of my own home.
RottenECards
Every dating site brags that they’re responsible for the
most relationships and marriages. Since there’s never been a scientific study
that measures the effectiveness of each online dating site and provides empirical
data as to the results, the dating site brag-a-thon continues. Here are a few less
than scientific observations about the online dating sites that my friends
and/or I have used.
Neil Clark Warren, founder of eHarmony, claims to be
responsible for 5% of all marriages in the United States, but has no data to
back up the claim. According to the Pew Research Center (which happens to be a
reliable source of information and has the data to back up their statistics), 5%
of Americans who are in a marriage or committed relationship say they met their
significant other online. That’s 5%
in total of all the online dating sites out there so there’s no way on God’s
little acre that eHarmony could possibly back up their ridiculous claim. According
to the experiences of my friends (I have never used eHarmony. I refuse
to sign up for a year and pay way too much money for the privilege), eHarmony
is the worst. They’ve met fewer people than on the other sites and none even
had a second date as a result.
Plenty of Fish (POF) or Plenty of Minnows as I
affectionately call it is the powerhouse of free dating sites. POF claims to
have 3.5 million daily active users who have 9 million conversations every day.
And they claim that every 2 minutes a couple confirms to POF that their
relationship started on the service. Again, take the grandiose claims with a
grain of salt. However, anecdotally, POF is the hands down winner in the
success department. In my immediate circle of friends, there have been several
long term relationships and a marriage. All I can say is that people are
getting their money’s worth (it’s free) and their claims may indeed be accurate.
Match.com claims to have helped create 517,000 relationships
- 92,000 marriages, and 1 million babies. However, the numbers that they quote
are for the Match Group, not Match.com. And, what you may not know is that the
Match Group bought OKCupid in 2011 and Plenty of Fish in 2015. So they now have
the market cornered in the online dating world and their quoted statistics may
not reflect Match.com, but the Match Group. What I found interesting was that the
biggest user group at Match.com (according to Match) is the age range of 25-44
which makes perfect sense because none of my friends or I (in the 60ish age
range) have had any success on Match.
OKCupid claims to have 1 million active members. One very
odd statistic (at least to me) is that they boast that 58% of members indicated
an interest in bondage in 2015. This is up 5% over the year before. For all of
you who are into bondage, OK Cupid is the site for you. They offer no
statistics about lasting relationships and marriage. What I find even more
interesting is that one of my friends has had a bumper crop of dates on
OKCupid. Perhaps we should have a chat about her predilection for bondage…
Based on your online dating profile I’m guessing literacy is not one of
the characteristics we share.
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Make someone smile today.
Geri
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