Australian Online Dating Sees Surge in Cyber Activities
Recent online dating patterns reflect emerging social realities, as opposed to certain individual traits having a shy personality. Studies performed by an Australian University noted the how and why of internet romance.
Political Scientists at the Australian University are researching the rise in the growing number of singles that are using online dating services in Australia.
Information in this report shows that in a 4 week period, there were almost 1 million first time visitors to online dating websites in Australia, with more than 1 million more existing online daters returning to dating websites. There are more than 50 popular or widely used online dating sites, and approximately 170 online dating services catering for individual religions or sexual preferences just to name a few examples.
Interestingly, the Australian University also revealed that the increasing trend in online dating was for mainly social reasons. Several of the participants in the study indicated using online dating sites for several reasons: a new a more private method of meeting singles or friends after ending a long standing relationship, it was also convenient for meeting singles or friends after moving house to a different residential address, online dating was also considered when friends are not available. The internet was a new idea and concept following bad offline dating mishaps.
People were also interested in online dating sites given the potential to meet a large number of singles or potential new dates in a small period of time. There was a diverse choice of people to select from with immediate access to information and helped with matching issues that people saw as priorities such as smokers and non smokers, if potential partners have kids, and other matching priorities.
Not being able to assess instant chemistry when using online dating websites was a disadvantage that could only be rectified by meeting offline. Other noted negative factors were that other online daters could be misleading in their physical description and professional status. Miscommunications often had a negative result with online dating as this problem seems to be a common occurrence.
Researches concur that there should be more accessible information on the effects of cyber-communication, and that the dating website owners themselves should give this more attention.