Online dating on the rise in regions

Date: 2006-09-06

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Yesterday we heard about a boom in online shopping in regional Australia, and it now seems that more country men and women are finding love on the web as well.

Fiona Thomas runs the online dating site Rural Romeos, and says in the past 12 months there has been a 50 per cent increase in online dating.

She says access to the Internet has reduced isolation, which in the past has caused loneliness and depression.

"They're pretty fair dinkum about it," she said.

"Mainly in the marriage age bracket sort of from 25 but right up to 40 - 45, that may have been married and this is second time around.

"They're serious because we've had one wedding already and we've got another on coming up next month and I've just got notification yesterday that we've got a wedding in April with a baby on the way."

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