Is meeting your future husband/wife at a party, bookstore, bar passe?

I'm going to touch on a topic that has a huge success rate and also makes people pretty uncomfortable to admit...online dating. I'll grudgingly admit I've tried it and I know lots of my friends who have had a lot of success trying it out. There always seems to be a bit of embarrassment about it though, however since we are now in the age of technology it shouldn't be that surprising anymore that people find their future partners online. Personally I know about 5 couples that are married that met online. That's pretty huge! And I know a lot of people who are dating that met online so the fact is...it works.

• Married couples who met online have an average courtship period of 18.5 months. Married couples who met offline courtship period last on average 42 months
• The online dating industry is now worth $4 billion worldwide
• In the last year 17% of couples who married met on a dating site
• 1 in 5 singles have dated someone they met on a dating site
• The top 3 religions where both the man and the woman in a married couple are from the same religion are: Hindus (90%), Mormons (83%), and Catholics (78%)
• The average user of a mobile phone spends 12 minutes and 44 seconds on mobile dating sites per week.
• New York State passes an Internet Dating Safety Act. It is the second state to do so
• Women in their early 20s who show cleavage in their profiles do around 24% better, but that number rises to 79% by the time they hit age 32. Similarly, men who show their abs do    better—but men only show their abs when they have really nice abs.
• People in their 20s and 30s are almost race-blind when it comes to deciding who to message for a date. People in their 50s and 60s message people of their own race around twice as   frequently.
• Unless they’re over 6 feet tall, men lie almost uniformly about their height, estimating up by approximately 2 inches
• One third of American singles won't even respond to dating profiles that don’t include a picture.
• 70% say that eyes are the sexiest facial feature
• Drinking, political views, and religious affiliations were also listed as things that could cause you to be rejected
• The two things that can cause you to go from possible soul mate to the recycle bin in just one click are your weight and having children.
• Most American singles will meet for a face-to-face date within a month after exchanging countless e-mail messages and at least ten telephone calls.