Nearly 5 million US adults said they participated in online dating in the past 30 days

Date: 2007-10-02

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Men were slightly (8%+) more likely than women to have logged onto an online dating site in that time.

“While the increased acceptance of this kind of dating might lead people to assume ‘everyone is doing it,’ in actual fact a very small percentage of adults date online,” said Anne Marie Kelly, vice president of marketing and strategic planning at MRI, in a statement.

“What’s interesting is that both genders, younger and more mature adults and most income brackets are represented in a profile of online daters," Ms. Kelly said.

Adults under 35 comprised almost one-half of all online daters, making them 59% more likely than the population as a whole to have done so.

Nearly one-quarter of online daters were between 35 and 44.

While only 16% of the 2.5 million adults were sole parents, they were 185%+ more likely than the average adult to have dated online.

MRI conducted the survey between November 2006 and May 2007.

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