How Couples Meet

With the rise of the online dating for the first time there is tons of easily accessible data on how people look for and choose their partners. A few interesting findings in this paper:

• The internet has done a lot for gays and lesbians meet but has mostly displaced other forms of socializing for heterosexuals.
• Relationships formed online tend to last as long as other relationships.
• Despite the internet, the partnership rate for heterosexuals has remained roughly constant.

Good read through (fun with statistics!)

http://asr.sagepub.com/content/77/4/523.full