More information about the Harris Interactive online survey that eHarmony sponsored last year and from which eHarmony based its 118 marriages a day slogan, from the New Scientist, dated 16 August 2008:
Go online to find your future spouse
You’re now more likely to find your true love on the internet than at work or at a party, in the US at least – especially if you’re over 45.
That’s according to a Harris Interactive online survey of more than 10,000 people who married in the US during an 18-month period in 2006 and 2007. “Wanting to get married and not going online will soon be seen as equivalent to trying to find an address by driving around randomly, rather than using a map,” says Galen Buckwalter of eHarmony, the online matchmaking company in Pasadena, California, that sponsored the survey.
Nineteen per cent of the couples met online, according to the survey, compared with 17 per cent who met at work and 17 per cent who met through friends.
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