Some 41 % of
SNS users with recent dating experience in the 18 - 29
age group have used a social networking site to get more information about a potential partner (compared with 24 % of those
ages 30 - 49), and 18 % have followed or friended someone specifically because someone suggested they might like to date that person (double the 9 % of 30 - 49 year olds who have done so).