Online dating is also relatively popular among the college-educated, as well as among urban and suburban residents.

And 38% of Americans who are single and actively looking for a partner have used online dating at one point or another.

Based on this main review and also on customer feedback we assign each site a weighted score based on these two factors.

However, sometimes people forget their personal safety when flirting online.

While there is no need to for paranoia – we really don’t want to see you potential life changing online dating experience sullied by a scammer.

We have compiled this extremely brief summary on how to stay safe when meeting people online: The points mentioned above are not meant to scare or put you off online dating!

Moving beyond dates, one quarter of online daters (23%) say that they themselves have entered into a marriage or long-term relationship with someone they met through a dating site or app.

That is statistically similar to the 17% of online daters who said that this had happened to them when we first asked this question in 2005.