What is your opinion?

"A new paper suggests partners who meet online are more likely to be compatible than those who meet in person. The paper adds to a growing body of research suggesting marriages that start online are stronger and last longer than relationships that start offline"

Parliment is full of ******** to.

People are people no matter where you find them, its the indeviduals that count, history teaches us that the bible, the phone {IE land Line), the telegraph, and just about every other tech advance mere humans have ever made, has been the promised land. In the end its how some thing is used, that matters, any thing in fact every thing can and proberly has been missused.

But as far as relationships are concerned, it is never easy to find out match, thats when newspaper personals exist, net dating sites, even smoke signals i bet have been used.

Use every medium at your disposal, consider who or what your trying to meet, then slant you profile to attract that kind of person. The major thing agaibnst all of us is, the compertition, and our culture, witch teaches us to throw away, rather than persevea. To work to make a relationship.

Go hunting, find the right preson for you, then make two people happy. It dose'nt matter where you find the right person, just that you do find the right person.

leona

you are so beautiful

Again a cartoon

We have forums, and not one ginormous chatroom, so this little fella from me ...

The fellow is gone twinggg

Yes, a relationship can start online. Whether or not the relationship flourishes depends on what occurs once the two people meet face to face.

^^^ Signed ^^^


... though the "meet face to face" part can be tricky, if people live in two different corners of the world.

Hi Leonie,

You are right in saying that it "doesn't matter where we find or meet the right person", because...

One of the most beautiful feelings is to meet in our life that someone special, loving them and being loved with reciprocity.

Have a beautiful weekend!

There's something to that for sure I think.
When meeting online you go through at least some of the getting-to-know bits and pieces before you meet. If you think it's not going to be a great match you won't even go on a date.

So in that sense you're a step ahead of people who meet in real life for the first time.

In many cases online relationships do not translate to chemistry and are unlikely to succeed without a face to face meet . There can be a seemingly great connection online which may not survive in the real world . It is easier online to get caught up in the “idea “ and fairytale of falling in love.

I would have offered the source of the paper, it would be interesting how the data was collected - so I can put that institute or author in my list of junk scientists.

I believe that marriages being more and more as a result of online dating, but I doubt the quality of those marriages. Time will tell, and the jury is still out on it being stronger or last longer

This site, back when I joined in 2007, really had a lot of activity. People came here to chat with others, discuss topics, and yes see if they could find someone. I feel that dating sites back then had people who really wanted to enjoy the experience of finding someone in a new way. You really didn't have a lot of scammers back then and so I feel the process of being online really had a more positive feel to it. Nowadays I feel online dating is more about hooking up than actual dating. Not saying that some people can't find a long lasting relationship online but I feel online dating was more successful back in the mid to late 2000's.

I think, you made a valid point there. Back in the days, dating sites, even social media as such, were about connecting people, making friends, having a chat about common interests. Nowadays, many sites are flooded with dubious people trying to spread their dubious business ... dubious in many ways, as a matter of fact.

In my experience it helps to change dating sites regularly. Moving to newer ones. Often a dating site is good until more and more scammers and/or players sink their teeth in it and ruin it. Then it's time to move on to another one. That way you can sort of keep ahead of scammers and still get to enjoy the best a site has to offer before it gets ruined.

Another thing is to go for paid-for sites as then there's strict control and scammers rarely pay. Then you can still get a certain amount of players, but you'll still have a better site.
And on the better dating sites -meaning more expensive ones- you rarely have any player at all.

But if you're not willing to pay or not much it's best to keep up to speed with new(er) dating sites and move to those regularly. As soon as a site begins to go down the drain.
This has begun to happen with the dating site I'm on, even though that took quite some years. So soon I will shop around for something better and new(er).

i agree. time will tell.

Hmmm Chica pika rika

Time goes perfectly accordingly,
Its only human priority

Here is the source link, make your own judgment:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-think-relationships-start-online-211456037.html

Hi Nicole!

I think in some ways this is true. Typically if we meet someone online we spend some time talking and getting to know each other before ever meeting. Especially if you don't meet in person right away, there's a LOT of talking before ever meeting. This can definitely help determine compatibility.

However, there's often a disconnect between the person we know online (even if you are video chatting) and the person we meet in person. There's a lot you can't learn about a partner until you've spent time together in person. You're learning about a person based on what they tell you. They might see themselves through a different lens than what you'd see. For example, a person can tell you they are easygoing, and they can appear easygoing during your online/phone/Zoom interactions, but you can't really know they're easygoing until you've seen them in stressful situations or consistently witnessed their interactions with other people. And like Blondey said above, sometimes you can seem so right for each other on paper, but when you're together in person the chemistry just isn't there.

One of the biggest problems that can occur (in my opinion) is that if we spend a lot of time cultivating a relationship online before meeting, we tend to rush intimacy. We aren't able to have the physical component of the relationship yet, so to compensate, we fill in those gaps with contrived emotional intimacy. Some of us feel like we are in love before we've ever met. Then when we do meet, it's often different than what we expected. It can take time to amalgamate the person we've come to know online with the person they are in real life.

In my opinion, online platforms are a great place to meet partners, but it's important to meet face-to-face as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. And when it does all work out, it can be pretty amazing. Good luck!