Online dating services allow members to create profiles, upload photos, and search for potential matches based on criteria like location, age, and gender. EHarmony uses a compatibility matching system to pair users based on their answers to personality questions. While eHarmony and other dating sites have led to many successful relationships, finding a quality match requires honesty, an open mindset, a willingness to meet new people, and maintaining a life outside of online dating. Safety is also a concern, but eHarmony has features to protect users' anonymity and report inappropriate behavior. Overall, online dating can work for some, but the user's experience and mindset going into it are important factors for relationship success.

1. Jennifer
Vandervoort

2. WHAT IS ONLINE DATING?
Online dating services generally require a prospective member to
provide personal information, before they can search for other
individuals using criteria they set, such as age range, gender and
location.
Most sites allow members to upload photos of them as well as
browse the photos of others. They offer additional services such
as webcasts, online chat, winks, message boards, telephone
chat.

3. EHARMONY OVERVIEW
eHarmony works hard to deliver you the most
compatible matches possible. They believe in
empowering you to make the best choices by
providing guidance and support to help you
discover your best qualities and those of your
potential partners throughout your search.

4. IS EHARMONY A SUCCESSFUL WAY OF MEETING
A POTENTIAL PARTNER?

5. IS EHARMONY A SUCCESSFUL WAY OF MEETING
A POTENTIAL PARTNER?
• Although there are many successful stories and
stats, I believe it’s the mindset going into it, as well
as what you take away from it. You need to:
• Be honest on questionnaires
• Be willing to meet someone new
• Not to be judgemental based on physical
appearances
• Be able to have a social life aside from social
media

6. WHO USES EHARMONY?

7. SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELATIONSHIPS
SUSCEPTIBLE TO C O M PAR I N G
THE SOCIAL MEDIA YOURSELF TO
C O N TA G I O N E F F E C T OTHERS
 We might be more prone • Another downside of
to social media our social media
moodiness, depending relationships can be
on whom we’re spending that our successes feel
time with and paying diminished and our
attention to within our failures amplified.
social networks.

8. SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELATIONSHIPS
CONTECT WITH MORE PEOPLE
 As we look at the first trend, we note that social media enables
us to connect with many more people, from all walks of life,
than we might normally meet in a normal work-week
 Given the informal nature of social media, it’s easy to approach
someone you’d like to meet, and this can be done more easily
and fluidly. It’s easier to extend your sphere of influence and
enlarge it to include people you’d like to meet, or would like to
know better.

9. ONLINE DATING WEBSITES
EHARMONY L AVA L I F E
• A unique compatibility • Different dating
matching system personas that can be
takes twenty-nine connected or kept
different personailty separate at the user’s
variables and choice
determines who you • Dating
are most suitable to • Relationships
date • Intimate Encounters

10. ONLINE DATING WEBSITES
PLENTY OF
FISH M AT C H . C O M
• Considered the first • One of the largest
successful FREE dating dating sites in the
site world
• Heavily trafficked • Claiming over
forums 250,000 people a
• Compatibility year find a partner
questionnaires through the site
• “Who’s Seen me” button

11. ARE DATING WEBSITES SAFE?
• eHarmony protects the anonymity of its members
until they are ready to share personal information with
someone they want to know better. There is an option
that offers an added layer of protection, allowing you to
get to know a match pretty well before every revealing
your identity.
• eHarmony also offers a page with common sense
safety tips for online dating and a special email address
where members can report any concerns they have
about a match or another member’s conduct

12. CONCLUSION
• eHarmony is one of the most known dating websites around
the world, and has provided many individuals with successful
partners
• It is completely under the users control to pursue any matches
available, and what information is visible for other members to
see
• Like any social media site you have to be aware of what
you’re putting on the internet and who you are communicating
with
• Users need to have a positive mindset going into the internet
dating system, and knowing the negative affects