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August 8, 2011 02:05 pm GMT
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DuoDater Wants To Make Online Dating More Social And Less Awkward (Invites Herein)
Last month, Nick Paumgarten penned a lengthy article for The New Yorker detailing the rise of online dating and the effect it's had on web culture. Among other things, Paumgarten alludes to some eye-opening statistics about the industry, including the fact that fee-based dating sites have become, collectively, a billion-dollar industry, that "one in six new marriages is the result of meetings on Internet dating site", and that online dating is now the third most common way for people to meet.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jyHgXfgmVDM/
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