==The Evolution/history of Online dating==
According to Online dating, the online dating service is an example of a dating system and allows individuals, couples and groups to meet online and possibly develop a social, romantic or sexual relationship. Dating system also mentions that a dating system is any systemic means of improving matchmaking via rules or technology. In fact, online dating is a computer dating system established in the early-to-mid 20th century. And it started to become popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Nowadays, this service is a very common and popular service for people to communicate with other people. People use many kinds of media such as form-, video, or audio-/phone-based component, integrating them into a single “profile�?. It provides them multiple means to meet friends, find love, and find people who share the same habits and religious beliefs.
===Methods of Online Dating===
There are many different channels for online dating service. One of the example is through online chat and online dating sites. online chat mentions that online chat is a generic term for what are now mostly known as instant messaging applications – computer programs that enable two-way typing to connect userts to each other. For example, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, and chat room. Take MSN as an example, users can chat with more than one person in the same ‘message box’ when using the most updated version of MSN.
Despite the fast development of these online instant message service, online dating sites are still a popular choice for online dating “users�?. The target of these web-site is helping users to make friends and find loves online. For instance, the most popular online dating web site, Match.com, is a publicly held operating business of IAC/ InterActiveCorp which start to serve the public on April 21, 1995. In its 10-year history, more than 60,000 new people register on Match.com every day. And it has grown to more than 15 million members with profiles posted, active users and about one million paying subscribers from more than 246 countries. This online dating supplier nowadays has six continents, operates more than 30 dating sites in 18 local languages and supports local currencies.
Besides this, LavaLife.com and Date.com are two private companies, which are run by Canada and the USA companies respectively. They have been providing online dating services since 1997. Now, there are numerous other online dating web sites which can be found on the Internet, such as RSVP.com. Internet users can also make one of their own, too. Online Dating Magazine
===Future of Online Dating===
Future of the online dating industry website mentions that there are two main changes that will occur in Internet dating in the coming future. Firstly, the industry is now undergoing a period of “professionalisation�?. It’s becoming a mainstream business and therefore the industry is very keen now to protect its reputation. Secondly, the dating service will spread from the Internet to people’s mobile phones. As a result, Blue tooth-based location services, SMS-based location services and 3G-based video messaging services will be some very useful, common and popular service in the future. Furthermore, the writer of the article prediction about the future of the dating industry is that the number of the elderly users will increase. Oriented services will be more friendship, and there will be more ways to send and receive messages anonymously such as video, SMS, MMS, Internet and TV-based services.
===See also===
Key Topic: Online Dating
===References===
Dating System (2005) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Retrived on 25 October 2005, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_system
Smith, G. (2005) Future of the online dating industry Online dating industry blog and consultant Retrived on 15 October 2005, from http://www.gordonsmith.co.uk/2005/05/future-of-online-dating-industry.html
Online Chat (2005) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Retrived on 15 October 2005, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
Online Dating (2005) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Retrived on 15 October 2005, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_dating
Online Dating Magazine (2005) Online Dating Magazine Retrived on 15 October 2005, from http://www.onlinedatingmagazines.com
===Contributor===
Kanix Yau 00:21, 2 Oct 2005 (EST)
