DAILY NEWS – June 12 – Between 2007 and 2009 alone, a study titled "The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary", found that 30% of couples in the survey met their partners online. Only friends help to hook up more couples than the Internet these days. Nevertheless today more than 120,000 marriages a year owe their origin to the Internet, according to Online Dating Magazine. A 2007 Harris Interactive survey of more then 10,000 people for eHarmony found that 31%of married couples age 45 to 54 met on the Internet, compared with 18% of 20 to 44-year-olds who did. 40M Americans look at online dating sites each month, with online dating revenues growing 10-15% per year and will hit $1.9 billion within three years, according to Piper Jaffray & Co.
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