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2. Online dating - Wikipedia

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   Online dating, also known as internet dating, virtual dating, or mobile app dating, [1] is a method used by people with a goal of searching for and interacting with potential romantic or sexual partners, via the internet. An online dating service is a company that promotes and provides specific mechanisms for the practice of online dating ...

3. Internet relationship - Wikipedia

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   Internet relationship. An internet relationship is a relationship between people who have met online, and in many cases know each other only via the Internet. [1] Online relationships are similar in many ways to pen pal relationships. This relationship can be romantic, platonic, or even based on business affairs.

4. Social information processing (theory) - Wikipedia

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   Many have also started to gain an understanding of another person through "personal homepages and other forms of online interaction and self-presentation, including online dating sites." [35] However, with the introduction of many online social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter , and LinkedIn , there are many opportunities for people to ...

5. Dating - Wikipedia

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   When young people are in school, they have a lot of access to people their own age, and do not need tools such as online websites or dating services. Chinese writer Lao Wai, writing to homeland Chinese about America, considered that the college years were the "golden age of dating" for Americans, when Americans dated more than at any other time ...

6. Ready or Not, Speed Dating Is Making a Comeback—Here’s Why It ...

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   Just like dating apps, mutual setups and meeting someone at a bar, there’s no guarantee that the right connection will manifest in a gathering of 75+ people. But as with all things when you’re ...

7. Timeline of online dating - Wikipedia

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   Started by Jim Harvey and Phil Fialer as a class project at Stanford. Used a questionnaire and an IBM 650 to match 49 men and 49 women. [1] 1963. Ed Lewis at Iowa State University uses a questionnaire and an IBM computer "to optimize the meeting potential at dances". [2] 1964. St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) launches.