I don't think those numbers are inflated at all. According to the U.N., Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, there were 2,160,000 marriages performed in the U.S. during 2006. That breaks down to 5,918 marriages per day. So, if people are meeting so often on the Internet (maybe even more often than in real life), and with eHarmony being one of the most popular sites to make that happen, it seems logical that they would be responsible for at least 118 marriages per day. Franky, I'm surprised the number isn't much higher.

 

Good post. :thumb:

Thought about it once, but my luck they would hook me up with some Tea Party chick or Glenn Beck's sister... Or worst still some woman that thought I was too negative about the Reds.

 

YIKES!!

 

Hopefully they would do at least a cursory screening for political ideology.

I wonder how many of those marriages are people's second or third? Not that this matters, but from my mother's experience, after being married for 22 years and then divorced it is a little harder to meet people. She tried the internet thing for a while, but then met a guy golfing.

 

I would imagine that there is a high percentage of second marriages in that 86K (Once again, not a bad thing).

I'm not buying it!

I'm not buying it!

 

You're not buying eHarmony's services or the numbers from the thread? :sssh:

 

:lol:

I don't think those numbers are inflated at all. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Statistical Abstract, there were 2,204,600 marriages performed in the U.S. during 2007. That breaks down to 6,040 marriages per day. So, if people are meeting so often on the Internet (maybe even more often than in real life), and with eHarmony being one of the most popular sites to make that happen, it seems logical that they would be responsible for at least 118 marriages per day. Franky, I'm surprised the number isn't much higher.

 

Was just sitting here talking about it with Mrs C. We know 44 couples who have gotten married in the last 10 years or so. Of them, 5 met on-line. That's 11.3%. So if I take that number and multiply it by 6,040, that's 682 marriages per day from online sources. IMO, 118 from the #1 site is definitely possible.