1) Online dating has become common, with many people meeting partners through websites or apps. Facebook has emerged as a new way to connect romantically since it has over a billion users. 2) Some research indicates that 10% of couples who met online actually knew each other through offline contacts and reconnected on Facebook. 3) With its large user base and new search features, Facebook poses a threat to traditional online dating sites by enabling people to find potential partners they already have ties to.

1. Facebook:
The New
Online Dating
By: Jessica Oakie
Photo By: perpetualplum (flickr)

2. Photo by: liberalmind1012 (Flickr)
Two most common ways of meeting people
these days are through blind dates, and online
dating websites.

3. Online dating is a dating system which allows
individuals to make contact and
communicate with each other over the
Internet…
Photo by: Don Hankins
(Flickr)

4. …usually with the objective of
developing a personal,
romantic, or sexual
relationship.
Photo by: gareth1953 Come
on Brentford (Flickr)

5. Over the past 50
years, online
dating has been
present in
society…
Photo by: Jenn Durfey
(Flickr)

6. …beginning with a computer
dating service involving
applications processed by an early
IBM card sorting machine.
Photo
by:
Marcin
Wichary
(Flickr)

7. The current rise of
technology and social
media has made online
dating a norm in society...
Photo By: UltraSlo1 (Flickr)

8. …with tons of thousands
individuals creating
profiles of themselves in
hope to find their perfect
match.
Photo By: krossbow (Flickr)

9. Today,
one in
five
relationships
start online.
Photo by: balleyne (Flickr)

10. However, dating sites can be time consuming,
costly, and somewhat embarrassing for many
people.
Photo by: danielmoyle (Flickr)

11. Research has shown
social media has
enhanced
relationships…
Photo
by:
FindYourSearch
(Flickr)

12. … by
strengthening
existing offline
relationships.
Photo by: Candie_N (Flickr)

13. Facebook, a social
network known where
friends connect online by
posting pictures, wall posts,
etc.Photo by: basykes (Flickr)

14. "Facebook basically started as a dating site. It's
uniquely positioned to match people up.”
Photo By: Richard-G (Flickr)

15. With over one
billion
Facebook
users, it is easy
for this social
media site to
connect
others
compared to
online dating
sites with less
subscribers.
Photo by: Nerissa’s ring (Flickr)

16. Photo
by:
epSos.de
(Flickr)
Photo
by:
Molly
DG
(Flickr)
Two out of every five single persons in the age
group 24 - 50 use, or have used, online dating
services.

17. Facebook has the most users in the
age group of 25-54, the online
dating demographic.
Photo by: LArideforkids (Flickr)

18. Already Facebook has come out
with “Graph Search”, which can
be used as online dating where a
person can find specific qualities
from a certain group of friends.
Photo by: Oh Paris (Flickr)

19. Facebook’s approach is different from other online
dating sites- you find people you do know.
Photo by: Tobyotter (Flickr)

20. Photo by: JoeInQueens (Flickr)Photo by: Spree2010 (Flickr)
A study from Stanford
University found that
about 10% of couples
who met online knew
each other first in some
other context and re-
connected through a
social network like
Facebook.

21. Once Graph Search was announced
from Facebook, IAC/InterActiveCorp
stock, parent company of popular online
dating sites like Match.com,
dropped by 2%.
Photo
by:
Ehnmark
(Flickr)

22. Facebook is a
true threat to
online dating
sites…
Photo by: familymwr (Flickr)

23. …so what else will
Facebook compete against
on the
online world?
Photo by: Horia Varlan (Flickr)

24. Credits
All photos are taken from Flickr and under the
Creative Commons-licensed content requiring
attribution.

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