Definitions
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- noun The
Internet equivalent of adate ; the process of getting to know someone viainstant messages or othercomputerized communication .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's the SoMe behemoth Facebook, though, that ranks first in our survey, above any e-dating site, as the place to find romance.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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In 2006, an online lifetime ago, a Pew research study found that 7 million American adults had gone on dates with someone they met through an e-dating site; 52 percent of the e-daters reported mostly positive experiences, while a significant 29 percent reported mostly negatives.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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I believe we're going to start seeing more shades of e-dating advice on everything from its courtesies to its heartbreaking and public infidelities.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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If e-dating has accomplished anything, it's this: Social relationships that used to take time to form, especially over long distances, can now be rendered immediately.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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One of the big questions about the future is whether, mainstream or not, e-dating is really just a morality-free zone.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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It's Valentine's Day once again, when lonely hearts turn to thoughts of love, Cupid's lets his bow fly, and e-dating across the U.S. and the EU approaches a whopping $1.6 billion market.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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Trust in this number means e-dating sites will keep gleaning new members, as hearing your best pal's success story might lead you to lay down your cynicism.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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"The bloom is off the rose," said David Evans, a consultant for e-dating companies who edits Online Dating Insider.
Online Dating Startups Drive Matchmaking Makeover Amy Lee 2011
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No longer do Americans think e-dating is only for "losers" or people lacking "a life"; now some 40 percent of men and 44 percent of women disagree.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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Whether it makes potential matches good or bad at intimacy, many would answer that intimacy is of course the wild card, that e-dating is just a Web 2.0 efficiency as likely to lead to long-term romance as any other venue for finding love.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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