Have you ever wondered when dating websites are at their busiest? You won't be surprised to learn that it's after Christmas. It's times like the festive period when you realise that you'd like to have love ones around.
Here at Lovesongs 247, we imagine that New Year's Resolutions also play a big part in contributing to this surge in traffic for dating websites as people try to fulfil their resolution of finding love and why not?
We thought we needed to find out how much this increase was, and what effects it had on online dating sites, so we send Rod from The Dating
Show to have a quick chat with David Cliff, who runs Older Dating Online.
If you'd like to listen to their chat, you can click here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UfSgaK8sg
Or if you prefer to read it, their conversation is below.
R: One in five relationships now starts online, and it contributes almost 3.4 billion pounds annually to the UK economy.
David Cliff runs OlderDatingOnline.com. He says dating online is more socially acceptable now than it ever has been.
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D: I think people are looking for a new start for the New Year, which includes new relationships.
R: And what sort of an increase do you actually see?
D: Around 350% increase from Boxing Day to New Year and January itself remains very busy as well.
R: Now many of your sites are aimed at older people, why is that?
D: Well as I was already over 50 when I started in the online dating business, I recognised the need for sites targeting people of my own age.
R: One in five people now find love online, that's 20%. Any stigma that was attached to online dating that used to be around has surely gone now.
D: It has, there was a certain stigma attached to it, especially with older people years ago, but I don't there's any stigma there at all now.
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R: That's David Cliff from OlderDatingOnline.com.
This is an excerpt from January's Dating Show podcast. If you'd like to listen to the rest of the podcast, you can here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsOEVY727vU