USA Pew Research Report October 1, 2015

Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships in USA
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/teens-technology-and-romantic-relationships/

Introduction
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/teens-technology-and-romantic-relationships-introduction/

Chapter 1: Basics of Teen Romantic Relationships
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/basics-of-teen-romantic-relationships/

Chapter 2: How Teens Meet, Flirt With and Ask Out Potential Romantic Partners
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/how-teens-interact-with-potential-romantic-partners/

Chapter 3: How Teens Incorporate Digital Platforms and Devices Into Their Romantic Relationships
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/how-teens-incorporate-digital-platforms-and-devices-into-their-romantic-relationships/

Chapter 4: Social Media and Romantic Relationships
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/social-media-and-romantic-relationships/

Chapter 5: After the Relationship: Technology and Breakups
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/after-the-relationship-technology-and-breakups/

Chapter 6: Teen Relationship Struggles: From Potentially Innocuous to Annoying to Abusive Digital Behaviors
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/01/teen-relationship-struggles/
 
FULL REPORT
http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/10/PI_2015-10-01_teens-technology-romance_FINAL.pdf


Facebook, SnapChat, MySpace, Twitter and others allow minors to use it (people from 13 to 17 years old)
Online Dating is NOT for minors. 
See how Skout collapsed.
http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/skout-rape/

Please see:
The Surprising Way Most People Meet Their Partners
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/the-surprising-way-most-people-meet.html

Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!

Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html 
Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/paper-partnership-longevity-and.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/personality-partner-similarity-and.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/personality-traits-are-highly-stable-in.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/09/personality-traits-are-highly-stable.html
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 
 

More about Pew study 2013: Online Dating & Relationships

Mashable had published an article about Pew study 2013: Online Dating & Relationships.

"With the promise of algorithmic matching and big pools of single people, the Internet should be a serious-committed-relationships machine. And that should only improve as those algorithms are refined and that pool grows bigger. But alas. Compared with 2005, the rate of online matches that evolve into marriages or other long-term partnerships remains about the same (23% today, versus 17% in 2005 — "statistically similar" numbers, according to Pew). There's no way to gauge whether this number is low or high compared with other venues for meeting people, but it's interesting that it hasn't budged more as online dating has become more popular and more accepted."

I agree, Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. 
 Please read: LIST of Obsolete Online Dating Sites
With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony like TeAmoRu, eSynchrony and others.
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever. 

Pew study: Online Dating & Relationships

Remember the Pew study: 1 in 3 U.S. Americans now owns a tablet  ? the mobile concept evolving, meaning tablets with Wi-Fi Network access and not smartphones.

Now Pew had published Online Dating & Relationships report. 

"Negative experiences on online dating sites are relatively common
Even as online daters have largely positive opinions of the process, many have had negative experiences using online dating. Half (54%) of online daters have felt that someone else seriously misrepresented themselves in their profile. And more seriously, 28% of online daters have been contacted by someone through an online dating site or app in a way that made them feel harassed or uncomfortable. Women are much more likely than men to have experienced uncomfortable contact via online dating sites or apps: some 42% of female online daters have experienced this type of contact at one point or another, compared with 17% of men."


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. (Please read: The Unsurprising Trend of Online Dating 'Going Offline' ) 

C level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!
With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony like TeAmoRu, eSynchrony and others.
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.