Introduction
 Dating Website : a new mean to communicate

between people
 To create relationships : friendly, romantic, sexual

o Registration requirement :  Personal information (name, age, location)  Psychological test  Free or not o Many available services  Webcam chats, telephone chat, message boards

Problem
Is using a dating website a good way to find love ?

Summary
 Part I : History  Part 2 : Important figures

 Part 3 : The motion (pros – cons)

History
 First dating website : classmates.com (american)  1995

History
 2001 : 2 types of interaction are possible  Matchmaking


By affinity and compatibility

 Online dating


Free chat between people of the community

• Evolution of dating websites : creation of Second Life

Important figures
 $ 469,5 million spent by american residents in 2004

against $ 932 million expected for 2011.
 844 lifestyles and dating websites in 2007 : increase of

35 % in three years.
 30 % of the 80 million babyboomers are single  Explanation of the dating websites’ growth frequentation

Pros : a modern and easy way
 A new tool to express yourself  Possibility to chat whenever you want, with who you want  A way to meet people from different horizons  -

You can choose which relation you are interested in : Friendship Romance Sexual

Cons : The meeting
 Unnatural meeting  It breaks the charm of the unexpected meeting  Embarrassment of the meeting after just a brief

exchange of e-mails

Pros : avoid loneliness
 Every kind of people can find its soulmate :  Shy persons  Gay community • Set up of organized parties • No obligation because you have no link with the

person

Cons : Immorality
 The price  Rationalisation of love

 Criteria

Cons : Criterias
• They are polemical : incomes, age, social status,

physique
• Opposites attract each other

• Elements of your everyday life
• Without photo, you are not raised

Pros