Maintain business
relationships through social networking sites like LinkedIn or quick emails to say hello.
Not exact matches
Of the approximately 11,000 people surveyed about a year ago, 20 percent were in a committed
relationship with someone they met
through an online dating or
social networking site.
More than 40 million singles in the United States look for love on
social networking sites or
through some type of online dating service annually, according to a study conducted by Match.com — the nation's No. 1 dating
site, responsible for 30 percent of marriages that developed from online
relationships — in conjunction with marketing and
social media research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey.
Criminal groups make initial contact with potential victims
through online dating
sites and
social networking sites, and will try to move the «
relationship» away from monitored online space before defrauding people of what can amount to large sums of money.
They may thus be more comfortable using the Internet as a
social and
relationship - building tool (certainly
social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook have provided online resources designed for the maintenance of
relationships) than individuals whose early lives did not include the Internet and thus more likely to view the process of meeting romantic partners online as a simple and natural extension of their efforts to meet partners
through face - to - face means.
Social networking sites consist of webs of
relationships that expand
through conversations among people who share personal information and common interests, but who tend to be geographically distant.
Create an informal
relationship with the Christian literary agents by interacting with them
through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
In fact socialization is one of the strongest attractions of these tools (Douglas et al. 2008), accounting for the time individuals spend in interaction
through e-mail, forums, chat rooms or
social networking sites (Grohol 2005), and maintenance of interpersonal
relationships seems to be the main reason for computer - mediated communication (Bargh and McKenna 2004).