Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Online daters report positive connections
3/5/2006 | 
Coverage
Sharon Jayson, USA Today
'“More than a decade after the Internet became a dating mecca, a new study finds that those who have looked for relationships online have more faith in cyberspace than those who never have.
An estimated 16 million Americans have used a dating site or other site to meet people, the Pew Research Center reports; 45% of these have never been married. Pew found that 79% say online dating is a "good way to meet people" and 52% say the experience was mostly positive. But 29% say it was mostly negative.
Among all Internet users — about 145 million single people, married people or those in relationships — opinions appear evenly split: 44% agree that Internet dating is a "good way to meet people," and 44% disagree.
Amy Simmons, 31, of Loma Linda, Calif., "definitely recommends" online dating, even when she has nothing in common with some of the guys the sites suggest are good matches.
"I see it as all positive, because even when there has been a negative experience, you're always getting experience in dating," says Simmons, a university purchasing agent who has dated online for about three years and tried four sites.
"These sites have been able to respond to more specialized interests, and you'll see a lot more of that specialization and innovation happening," says Mary Madden, co-author of the Pew study.”
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