Seniors embrace online dating.Published 10:33 pm EST, Saturday, March 7, 2015

Seniors embrace online dating.Published 10:33 pm EST, Saturday, March 7, 2015

In large amount of methods, Carmela DeVito has discovered that dating at 57 is comparable to dating inside her teenagers or 20s.

“the stuff that is same on,” said the Milford resident. “They let you know they will call, in addition they don’t phone.”

But there is one notable means in which the dating scene changed since DeVito’s youth — through the online. Based on a 2013 research by the Pew Research Center, 11 per cent of United states adts — and 38 per cent of these who had been solitary and seeking for the partner — stated they utilized online internet dating sites or mobile dating apps, such as for example Match.com, eHarmony or OKCupid.

Those approaching their senior years are hardly strangers to the Web while the study showed younger people were more likely to use the sites. Scientists discovered that 6 % of these 55 to 64, and 3 per cent of the 65 and der, utilized online sites that are dating.

There are also web web sites geared particularly into the over-50 audience, including OurTime.com, and a niche site run by the AARP. There is a brand new site called Stitch.net (which recently expanded into Fairfield County) that compares itself to your dating internet site Tinder — popar with more youthful people as being a place where a person is prone to find an informal date than real love.

Which is a notion numerous seniors can connect with, stated Marcie Rogo, co-founder of Stitch.net. Continue reading “Seniors embrace online dating.Published 10:33 pm EST, Saturday, March 7, 2015”