The online dating services

The Online Publishers Association, in collaboration with the comScore networks, made a study which proves that, in 2004, in America, over 469 million dollars were spent for the online dating services. After the pornography segment, this is one of the largest industry al over the internet. In 2005, the costs of the dating sites reach up to 500 million dollars and for 2011 it is expected to be around 932 million dollars.

In November of 2004, there were registered more than 844 lifestyle and dating sites that represented a 38 percent increase since the start of that year. Real giants of internet, with a very huge traffic, opened also, domains for the online dating services. So, those who use this type of services, knows about Aol Personals, Yahoo Personals or Match.com. Also, one of the biggest sites from the online dating industry, E-Harmony, started in the late 1990 with over a 3 million dollars capital, developed one of the best method of matching, a personality test made especially for this site, after years of research.

The webcams chat, introduced recently, improved powerfully the internet dating. Now this is a common method for the online dating services and help people to avoid some of the risks that may come up.

Because the community of online dating is growing every day, the online dating sites have introduced also some services based on demographic or sexual preferences. They have erased the borders between countries, the online meeting between two people that habit in different zones of the world being possible. Also, the homosexual or bisexual persons can find their match more easily, with a single click on an online dating site.

For a better accuracy of online matching, some of the dating sites provide special services that include the comparison of handwriting between members. The handwriting provides special informations about persons and can tell a lot about important characteristics that cannot be known with other method.

A special niche in the online dating industry is filled by sites that are promoting the sexual, religious and race characteristics. They are very popular in these days because the globalization attempt. People want to maintain their individual characteristics and to share these preferences with their soul mate. Before the arrival of these sites, a jewish or a gay couldn't find a soul mate with this much ease, because of disadvantages due to prejudices of people. The online dating sites improve the sexual and personal life of some persons, but also other aspects of society, like the communication and the preservation of some individual characteristics, the compromises being no longer needed. In the 20 most popular online dating sites, Top that measured the rating of this type of sites in 2010, a special place was occupied by the sites that cover this niche and can provide the choice based on sexual, religion or race characteristics. We can find in this Top, sites like MenHunt, Love From India, Amigos or Black Christian People Meet.


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