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Article: THE DATING GAME
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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Once upon a time dating agencies had something of an image
problem. Now, almost five million Britons visit dating sites each
month and as many as 20 per cent of all young newlyweds meet online.
So what on earth is going on?
WHEN OSCAR WILDE WROTE "When you really want love, you will find
it waiting for you," he probably didn't also mean "... in your
inbox". Yet a striking number of us are now choosing to go online to
seek out our proverbial "other halves".
Even five years ago, internet dating was still, essentially, an
embarrassing thing. The prevailing - if unspoken - view was that if
you needed to use the net to find a partner, you were somehow
lacking, or weird, or both. Back then, in my ...