Views on internet dating

Forget its stigma: Online dating has become downright commonplace, according to a Pew Internet and American Life study released Monday.

And 38% of Americans who are single and actively looking for a partner have used online dating at one point or another.When Mark Zuckerberg created the site, who knows if it was his plan for people to meet and fall in love? While there are benefits to online dating, there are also drawbacks that should be taken into account. Online dating can make it easier to meet people that you naturally wouldn’t meet in a social setting.To me, the only difference in online dating verses the more traditional way of dating is simply how you initially meet and get to know someone.Compared with eight years ago, online daters in 2013 are more likely to actually go out on dates with the people they meet on these sites.Some 66% of online daters have gone on a date with someone they met through an online dating site or app, up from 43% of online daters who had done so when we first asked this question in 2005.