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The article presents the results of research and analyses in the English-language literature regarding the users of online dating services ? their characteristics, preferences, expectations, self-presentation and experiences connected with online dating. The structure of presenting the results is set up by a nine-stage prototype of the process of starting a romantic relation with a person met in the online dating service. The effect of the undertaken considerations was an attempt to describe the changes which appear while seeking a life partner. There are a lot of differences between online dating and conventional dating ? the use of modern technologies, access to potential candidates, selection stages and the very process of getting to know the other person. Despite these differences it is not possible to explicitly say whether the relationship which started online and not in the offline world will diversify the relations between partners who remain in the relationship.

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Kacprzak, K. (2014). Changes in Seeking a Life Partner ? a Research Review of the Users of Online Dating Services. INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Society, 17(4(68), 147–162. Retrieved from https://insted-tce.pl/ojs/index.php/tce/article/view/92
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