Older People Turn to Internet to Find Love
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Sensuous, intellectual woman, 5'3, adventurous, pretty and open, seeks a life partner who is sexy, highly intelligent and cheerful. How old is this woman? In her early 60s. That's the profile Mary Bellis Waller, now 64, posted on two Internet dating sites during her search for a companion. Waller was a pioneer of online dating among people her age, and thousands of others age 60 and older are also turning to the Internet to find romance.
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HONG KONG - There&#39;s a new service for men seeking true love. A software company has created an artificial girlfriend that lonely men can download to a mobile phone.
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By Anna Marie Kukec  Two high school buddies, who are now 40, are looking to the Internet for a new mid-life career. They created www.CompareAutoCare.com to offer consumers a forum for comparison shopping of car repair services.
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Web-savvy Japanese aged over 50 surf online just as often as young people do, using the Internet to arrange travel and read news, a study said.
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By Maria Puente  Think teens and twentysomethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It's Grandma and grandkids -- some too young to read -- who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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Web-savvy Japanese aged over 50 surf online just as often as young people do, using the Internet to arrange travel and read news, a study said Friday.
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By Susan Williams  susanwilliams@wvgazette.com  TWO friends used the Internet to find each other after years apart, and now they use it to earn their daily bread.   Pamela Garza and Marilyn Jeffries lost touch following marriage and relocations.
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Just like love, online dating could be a risky proposition for investors.
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Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide.
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For men seeking true romance there is now a new mating game with an unusual twist -- it is virtual and mobile. A fantasy world in which lovesick men can wine and dine a virtual girlfriend
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Life & style: Online dating agencies are changing to attract the MySpace generation.
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Online dating site Match.com has made  its own resolution for 2008: to get out and meet more people,  or in this case, potential subscribers.
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Online social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities.
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Retired people are starting to prefer  browsing the Internet to more traditional pastimes such as  gardening, travel and DIY, according to a survey on Friday.
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An unprecedented study of sex and seniors finds that many older people are surprisingly frisky &#151; willing to do, and talk about, intimate acts that would make their grandchildren blush. That may be too much information for some folks, but it comes from the most comprehensive sex survey ever done among 57- to 85-year-olds in the United States.
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Distraught relatives and friends of those missing after the most catastrophic tsunami on record are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for loved ones.
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By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 19--At first glance, the computer room doesn't look much like a  doorway.   But that's exactly what it is for senior citizens stepping into the cyber  age.