Meeting, Mating, and Cheating

Virtually overnight, online dating has gone from a fringe phenomenon to a popular and mainstream way to meet, worldwide. This extraordinary social and business revolution is touching millions of lives -- but until now, it's gone largely unreported. Now, Andrea Orr uncovers the real Internet dating revolution, in all its many forms.

This book reveals Internet dating at its most intimate, following people who are struggling to find soul mates in a sea of singles. It takes you behind the scenes of the world's largest subscription dating service, illuminating the business of Internet dating. It exposes the hidden underside of Internet dating: the lying and "general weirdness" that are still just a click away, and the massive use of the Web to facilitate cheating. It tours the world, showing how Internet dating is connecting people from Belfast to Beijing.

Finally, it previews the future of online dating -- the wireless dating services and next-generation technologies that may transform human meeting and mating yet again.

How the Web transformed dating

A fringe phenomenon becomes mainstream

Internet dating goes global

The great online mating tour: from Iran to Hong Kong, L.A. to Salt Lake City

I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional

Weirdness online

Underground at the "Love Bunker"

Life at Match.com, the world's #1 Internet dating service

Infidelity, Inc.

The new business of cheating

Beyond the laptop: The next dating revolutions

Wireless dating, high-tech psychological profiling and beyond