Key Findings About Online Dating In The US
Pew Research Stats
48 %
Similar shares of men versus women who have online dated recently say a major reason is to find a partner, dates, friends; differences emerge for casual sex.
50 %
Half of Americans (54%) say relationships that begin on a dating site or app are just as successful as those that begin in person.
A smaller share of U.S. adults – though still about four-in-ten – say these kinds of relationships are less successful than relationships that begin in person.
At the same time, half of Americans say online dating has had neither a positive nor negative effect on dating and relationships.
72 %
Among online daters, 72% of women say it was very important to them that the profiles they looked at included the type of relationship the person was looking for, compared with about half of men (53%). Women who have online dated are also more likely than men to say it was very important to them that the profiles they looked through included a person’s religious beliefs (32% vs. 18%), occupation (27% vs. 8%) or height (22% vs. 8%).
