“A lot of older people we interviewed said they could never be sure someone they were in a social group with was actually interested in a relationship,” says Malta. “Just because someone was single – widowed or divorced or whatever – didn’t mean they were actually flirting with you. They might just be being nice. At least online, you know everybody is there for the same reason. You don’t make a fool of yourself, they said. And if things weren’t right, you could let it go and just try again.”
And any shame once attached to a match made in cyberspace seems to have dissipated (that said, few want their real names used for this story).
“Over the last three years or so, we’ve experienced a 10 to 15 per cent growth in the over-50s market,” says Dave Heysen, chief executive of RSVP.Leggi tutto