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Internet dating popularity soars

A recent Oxford University study has shown that nearly one third of people who have access to the internet have visited internet dating sites.

The research also showed that 15 percent of people asked had found their current partner online. This was especially common among middle aged men and women who had found their partner since 1996, of whom nearly 40 percent had met online.

 

The research  concluded that, while church, family and hobby-groups have become less common routes to love, the usage of both clubbing and mutual friends have increased alongside online methods.

 

Bernie Hogan, member of the Oxford Internet Institute and co-writer of this study, said, “what the online world does is makes things findable – it makes people findable”.

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