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In studying the demographics of online dating , researchers found that those who met online had a higher chance of staying together in their marriage. But how do all those online daters fare out in the real world, in the long term? Cacioppo et al. The authors conducted a survey of 19, Americans who got married between and —and over a third of those relationships began online, which in itself is a dramatic finding. And those unions, according to the analysis, actually do differ from the unions of people who meet offline. Specifically, couples who meet online are both less likely to break up and report higher levels of marital satisfaction. The authors suggest four reasons as to why this might be the case:. Regardless of the mechanism, two things are clear: more and more Americans are meeting their spouses online and those marriages are pretty solid. So go ahead, take the plunge. JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.