Once you've established a rapport with someone,
suggest meeting offline sooner rather than later.
Not exact matches
And in fact, research
suggests that there are no significant personality differences between online and
offline daters.5 There is some evidence that online daters are more sensitive to interpersonal rejection, but even these findings have been mixed.6, 7 As far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who
met their spouses
offline, those who
met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losers.8
In fact, results of a recent nationally representative study
suggest that over one - third of individuals who married between 2005 and 2012 originally
met their partners on the Internet.1 What is particularly compelling about this study, however, is that it tackled a previously overlooked question that many dating websites (e.g., eHarmony) claim to know the answer to: Do individuals who
meet their partners online or
offline have more successful marriages?