“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). Continue reading “I can’t help thinking she wouldn’t have had to do too much fudging on her dating profile”