In a recent poll done by eHarmony and Harris, 10,675 people were surveyed between the ages of 20-54. These people were just recently married in 2006-2007 and the survey asked them where they met their spouse. Surprisingly, 19.4% of respondents said they met their mate online, whereas 17.2% met through friends (“So how’d, 2008) .
This is all the information that my article gave. Why I chose this article is because I am getting married on April 18 to the love of my life and we met on Yahoo Personals. For those of you who have heard about match.com, the common statement of “eHarmony rejected me” may come to mind. Well, I was one of those individuals. I guess I can’t say that eHarmony rejected me, they just did not have 1 single match for me. Match.com gave me too many candidates that hardly matched my criteria. I finally posted my profile on Yahoo Personals. My fiancé responded to my posting a day after I posted it. Since we both were not wiling to pay for the service, we looked each other up on Myspace. As soon as I sent him an email on Myspace, he sent me an instant message on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). It was a match made in heaven.
Even today, less than 3 months to our wedding, we are still embarrassed to tell people where we met. Most people think that only weirdo’s meet on the internet and that is just not true. If you are like me and live in a small town and work with all women and go to school online, how else are you supposed to meet anyone? I think internet sites like eHarmony and Yahoo Personals create a very safe and fun atmosphere to meet someone who is right for you based on the selections that you make. I think that the percentage of marriages from online meetings will increase dramatically in the next few years. I have to say that I can’t wait till the survey for 2010 and be proud to say that I met my husband online.
Reference:
So how’d you two meet? MSN Lifestyle. Retrieved January 26, 2009, from http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articlerbmatch.aspx?cpdocdocumentid=16215944&page=print
This is all the information that my article gave. Why I chose this article is because I am getting married on April 18 to the love of my life and we met on Yahoo Personals. For those of you who have heard about match.com, the common statement of “eHarmony rejected me” may come to mind. Well, I was one of those individuals. I guess I can’t say that eHarmony rejected me, they just did not have 1 single match for me. Match.com gave me too many candidates that hardly matched my criteria. I finally posted my profile on Yahoo Personals. My fiancé responded to my posting a day after I posted it. Since we both were not wiling to pay for the service, we looked each other up on Myspace. As soon as I sent him an email on Myspace, he sent me an instant message on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). It was a match made in heaven.
Even today, less than 3 months to our wedding, we are still embarrassed to tell people where we met. Most people think that only weirdo’s meet on the internet and that is just not true. If you are like me and live in a small town and work with all women and go to school online, how else are you supposed to meet anyone? I think internet sites like eHarmony and Yahoo Personals create a very safe and fun atmosphere to meet someone who is right for you based on the selections that you make. I think that the percentage of marriages from online meetings will increase dramatically in the next few years. I have to say that I can’t wait till the survey for 2010 and be proud to say that I met my husband online.
Reference:
So how’d you two meet? MSN Lifestyle. Retrieved January 26, 2009, from http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articlerbmatch.aspx?cpdocdocumentid=16215944&page=print
Congratulations! It is comforting to know that online websites actually do work. I am in much of the same position as you and do not get to meet many people who are compatable. I live in a small town and all the guys my age I went to school with so I already know which closets thier skeletons are in.
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