The world of Online Dating is vast and makes up for a large percentage of online traffic. People spends hours upon hours, going through thousands of profiles, messaging, exchanging IMs and meeting up for coffee (or dessert, depends on what floats your boat). Many of us may ask what are the actual statistics and opinions of those individuals who spend alot of time looking for love online.

In a National Research poll for users of Internet style dating techniques, here is some information that might surprise you.

Have you ever dated more than one person simultaneously ?

1. Yes 53%
2. No 33%
3. Don’t Know 13%

Do you believe in love at first sight ?

1. Yes 71%
2. No 20%
3. Don’t Know 9%

Choose the most important features of a partner

1. Looks 11%
2. Personality 30%
3. Physique 5%
4. Sense of Humor 14%
5. Eyes 10%
6. Popularity 0%
7. Smile 12%
8. Hair 7%
9. Education 7%
10. Career 3%

When a previous relationship has ended which of these is true ?

1. I was unfaithful 0%
2. He/she was unfaithful 29%
3. Amicable separation 9%
4. Irreconcilable differences 23%
5. Angry breakup 3%
6. Still friends 14%
7. Still lovers 3%
8. Just drifted apart 6%
9. Not sure what happened 14%

On a date do you think your companion is generally 100% truthful ?

1. Yes 22%
2. No 78%
3. Don’t know 0%

When does a date become a relationship ?

1. 1 week 3%
2. 1 month 17%
3. 2 months 20%
4. 6 months 13%
5. Once we have had sex 13%
6. Once I have met the parents 8%
7. Once we have been on vacation 0%
8. Once we have moved in together 0%
9. When he/she says I love you 25%

Do you trust someone when you first date them ?

1. Yes 24%
2. No 67%
3. Don’t Know 10%

Do you think it is okay to date someone from work ?

1. Yes, absolutely 22%
2. Yes, if you are careful 26%
3. Yes, if it remains a secret 4%
4. Yes, but not from your own office 15%
5. No, you will risk your career 13%
6. No, absolutely not 11%
7. Unsure 9%

What is the biggest acceptable age gap for you ?

1. Same age only 0%
2. 1 years 2%
3. 3 years 12%
4. 5 years 44%
5. 10 years 24%
6. 15 years 4%
7. 20 years 2%
8. 25 years 4%
9. Age doesn’t matter at all 8%

What is the first thing you notice about your date ?

1. Looks 38%
2. Dress 10%
3. Personality 17%
4. Wealth 0%
5. Style 2%
6. Manners 0%
7. Smile 10%
8. Eyes 19%
9. Humor 4%
10. Generosity 0%

How hard it it to find someone you really like?

1.) Impossible 9%
2.) Difficult 59%
3.) Fairly difficult 21%
4.) Fairly easy 9%
5.) Very easy 3%

Do you think people’s expectations are too high these days ?

1.) Yes 62%
2.) No 31%
3.) Don’t Know 7%

Do you like being single ?

1.) I love it 0%
2.) I like it 15%
3.) I don’t mind 35%
4.) I don’t like it 15%
5.) I hate it 35%

Do appearance and looks matter to you ?

1.) Yes 67%
2.) No 17%
3.) Don’t know 17%

Would you ever use internet dating services ?

1.) Yes 69%
2.) No 20%
3.) Don’t know 11%

Do you find it easy to meet new people ?

1.) Very easy 17%
2.) Quite easy 6%
3.) Easy 17%
4.) Quite difficult 42%
5.) Very difficult 17%
6.) Impossible 3%

How long have you been single ?

1.) 1 week 11%
2.) 1 month 7%
3.) 3 months 22%
4.) 6 months 18%
5.) 1 year 11%
6.) 2 years 7%
7.) 2 years+ 24%

Would you like to get married ?

1.) Yes 44%
2.) No 12%
3.) Maybe 32%
4.) Not again 4%
5.) Don’t know 8%

Where is the best place to meet new people ?

1.) Bar 18%
2.) Club 11%
3.) Beach 4%
4.) Church 2%
5.) Social club 4%
6.) Mall 4%
7.) Internet 18%
8.) Work 22%
9.) Sport 7%
10.) Other 9%

What kind of hair color are you most attracted to ?

1.) Blonde 32%
2.) Black 16%
3.) Light Brown 8%
4.) Dark Brown 8%
5.) Grey 4%
6.) Red 8%
7.) Bald 8%
8.) Don’t Mind 16%

There are countless dating sites out there and choosing the right one for you could mean the difference between living happily ever after with the perfect partner or spending the rest of your nights alone and eating made-for-one T.V. dinners.

Here at SinglesCorner.com, we’ll be posting tons of reviews, links and general resources to help you get the most out of your online dating experience. Here are just a handful of hot dating sites that you can check out right now… happy hunting!
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For all the stories that you find about finding love online, you’ll find just as many stories about heartbreak and deception. It’s true. The Internet is full of people who aren’t who they say they are. But it is a double-edged sword. Do you consider the picture posted on your online dating profile a good representation of what you look like on a day to day basis, or is it an enhanced version of your true self? Many people use photoshop, camera angles, makeup, lighting, etc… in order to create the best image possible. Is cleaning up your online dating picture dishonest?

Check out this real online dating story from Jeffrey T., who had several encounters with women who he thought misrepresented themselves before finding true love online:

“I went to college and I was meeting women at parties and in class but nothing ever worked out. One day I was looking through online personals and saw some pretty hot girls and thought to myself ‘These girls aren’t losers, I guess its okay to make an internet personal’ and so I did.I got a few responses a week, one every other day usually. Most of them were fake. I’d meet a girl who was ‘a model’ to find her smelly, dirty, with crooked teeth etc. I’d meet girls who “have the body of a dancer” to find them to have the body of a bouncer.

I’m not really shallow but there needs to be physical attraction for something to work.

I eventually got a response from this girl named Erin who went to my school. She sent me a picture and she looked alright, she was tall like me, slightly overweight but I didn’t care much, and had red hair which I loved.

One day after talking to her for a few weeks I rode my bike to see her. She lived in a dorm over a mile from mine so it was a decent trip to make late at night. I got there to find her not looking exactly like her picture.

She had really bad acne, but what was worse was that she caked on entirely too much makeup to cover it up so the makeup was all clumpy and disgusting. She had horrible posture and her entire body seemed all saggy like she was 90 years old. Needless to say I was thoroughly unattracted to her.

After that I made a new rule, I would no longer go to meet girls, they had to come to meet me. I lived in a dorm room so I would go downstairs to meet them since its a public place but I would not leave my building, just wasn’t worth it.

I went on alot of first dates in the time my personal was online, none of them worked out.

One date I think the girl used me for a free meal, she never returned my calls or emails afterwards and we got along good during the meal.

One date it was the girls idea to go to a strip club. We got a lap dance together, I think she may have used me to get a free lapdance.

But this story has a happy ending. I met Marie. She responded to my personal at the behest of her younger sister and we started seeing each other. That was 10 months ago and we’re still together, I am sure we will get married one day.

Internet Personals have really come a long way. Marie and I went to a BBQ on 4th of July and the 2 other couples there (who were both married) had met online as well. More people are meeting online than you may think.”

Thinking about joining a dating site? If you are new to the online dating scene, the thought of putting your personal information online for the world to see can be a little intimidating. Trying to build a profile, adding appropriate pictures and searching for a partner can all be a bit overwhelming.

However, once you’ve decided what website(s) you want to join and you’ve completed the initial labor intensive process of setting up your profile, interacting with others on the site in the form of befriending, flirting and simple conversation is crucial to finding a person who is compatible with yourself. The following are just a few of the many important steps that you should take when communicating within the online dating community.

v Choose a Dating Site That is Right for You

Nowadays, there are literally thousands of online dating sites ranging from general interests to persons in marriages looking to have affairs. They important thing to keep in mind, is that a brief look at a websites about us, FAQ or policy page can give you great insight as to what types of people you will meet in that website. Review and critique sites like www.singlescorner.com is also a great way to find out about dating websites.

v Beware of Scammers

Just as in real life, some people on dating websites don’t have the best intentions at heart. Some people on dating and social networking sites are there solely for the purpose of stealing identities and membership account information. Remember, no one on a social network or dating site will ever ask you for your password, user name or credit card number. If you ever encounter a member asking for this sort of sensitive information, make sure to tell an administrator right away.

v Be Extremely Careful When Meeting in Person

The entire point of going through the lengthy process of setting up your account and interacting with countless people is to reach the point where you know someone well enough to meet them in person. However, there are several precautions you should take when meeting someone from an online dating site for the first time. Always meet in a public place that is safe and has plenty of people around. Make sure that a friend knows where you are going and who you are supposed to be meeting. Never get picked up when meeting for the first time, this way your residence remains a secret and you can leave the date whenever you choose. If traveling out-of-town to meet someone, always have your own arrangements (transportation, a place to stay, etc…) just in case the meeting goes poorly.

There is a reason why online dating sites are so popular. Meeting people on-line can be a positive experience for most people if they take the proper precautions. The single most important tip for online dating is to always make safety your top priority when meeting people both online and in the real world.

Online dating is a widely debated topic, and is used in ways ranging from anonymous sex to married life (even a HAPPY one). You may ask yourself, can I make this work for me? Can this help make me happier? In my opinion, yes.

You can find someone special through online dating sites, because after all if your going into it with the intentions of finding a quality person to date, then you will always remain the one in control of the outcome.

Over the past decade, online dating has become a very popular and widely used way of meeting new people. Just like any other networking site though, it does comes with more than its fair share of creepy people and falsified accounts/profiles, but if your smart in your use of online recreational dating, then the world is at your fingertips and a healthy long lasting relationship can in fact be achieved.

Online dating has become one of the most successful business ventures, according to Wisegeek.com. There are so many different dating sites on the World Wide Web that even large Internet providers such as Yahoo! are providing their own dating sites for their users. Dating sites such as Match.com and eHarmony.com are among the most popular of the few hundreds of dating sites for people to choose from. One important thing to always remember, is that You are the boss! Think of it this way; you have thousands of potential men/women looking for exactly what you are, but now the trick is, is to be able to filter through them to find a more specific type of person your looking to meet. Blonde hair, exotic look, dark eyes, nice body, and so on. I dont think it can get much easier than that! Compare this with having to look slick, slapping on some of that Armani cologne, and having all those funny pick-up lines handy for when you first approach that sexy blond at the other end of the bar.

Furthermore, you get to cut through all the first impression yellow caution tape and move straight to the questions that matter. What do you look for in men/women? What kind of relationship are you looking for: friendship, casual, sexual, romantic? These are all legitimate questions that can be a forecast of warnings on the first couple of dates, depending on how open this new person in your life is. Another good thing to remember when beginning a new online dating profile, is whether or not it is a paid for site or not. Free sites tend to attract a larger percentage of ‘weirdos’ and people who aren’t as serious about having a reputable, long-lasting, committed relationship. Your chances of finding exactly what your looking for online, are far more increased if you know every profile on the site you choose is being paid for. It not only increases the repuataion of the site, but provides better grounds for new comers to transistion.

No matter what bests floats your boat, and what your opinion may be on online dating, I believe that it is a venture definitely worth exploring. I personally have used and know others who do as well with fantastic results that could be exactly what you’ve been looking for your entire life. After all, the Internet will always remain a place of connection to anything and everything ones heart desires. Even if it means taking that difficult first step to at least give it a shot. What do you have to lose?