Online dating is a modern way for single people seeking a partner to connect via Internet with potential matches. Websites and mobile apps offer this type of connection via computers, tablets, and smart phones.

Online dating: A new way to connect to eligible singles

If you remember personal ads in newspapers, online dating evolved from this type of advertisements for a partner.

The first dating sites (aka Internet personals) appeared in mid 1990s with propagation of the World Wide Web for individual users.

Thus, online dating is about 25 years old.

How does it work?

• People upload their profiles (answers to standard questionnaires) into a database of a website or app.
• Other users are able to view these dating profiles and contact members they find attractive.
• Users are also able to include photos and videos in their profiles.
• Websites and apps allow users to remain anonymous and don’t give away personal information in the first stages of communication with a new potential partner. When people feel comfortable with each other, they swap personal details and connect directly.
• Websites give users facilities to search databases by criteria, which allow them to eliminate undesirable matches.
• Online dating is different from matchmaking. Users connect with each other directly in the online dating systems (the systems are non-moderated), while in matchmaking someone else picks a potential date for you.

As such, Internet dating allows people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to meet each other in real life to connect and develop a relationship.

Websites give users facilities to search databases by criteria, which allow them to eliminate undesirable matches.

Specialty dating sites and apps

There are portals that offer all types of unique connections.

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Experts estimate that there over 8,000 web services that work as “Internet personals” today.

With the invention of apps the audience of the dating Universe expanded significantly, including nearly all single people with a mobile phone. In fact, it’s a new level of connectivity that single people enjoy today.

Some users find dating apps more convenient, while others prefer to surf the web. Most websites for singles have both an app for a mobile phone as well as the website.

Matchmaking

The old-fashioned partner-searching with the help of a specialist got a revamp with the advent of the Internet.

Online personals quickly realized it’s important that users start talking to each other and to encourage that, started to send them automatic “matches” found by the software in accordance with the criteria set by the individual seeker.

Today this ability is greatly enhanced by AI (artificial intelligence), which provides a more flexible approach to finding the right match.

By changing your partner criteria to more precise you are able to find someone who is closely matched to you.

Some Internet sites for singles are offering detailed questionnaires that contain hundreds of questions, in order to make the matching process more reliable. In general, the quality of matches relies on the ability to select from the large database of worthy candidates. The better is the site’s database, the better will be the quality of matches you get.

Others work in a personalized way, where a professional matchmaker reviews all matches suggested, to further improve the chance of a strong relationship.

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