Meeting, Mating, and Cheating: Sex, Love, and the New World of Online Dating (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

By Andrea Orr

A serious and comprehensive examination of the worldwide phenomenon of online dating, this work reveals Internet dating at its most intimate, following people who are struggling to find soul mates in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131418084
• ISBN13: 9780131418080
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

the real deal on internet dating

what I liked about this book is that it's not a "how to" about internet dating, and it doesn't try and give advice. instead, this book gives you an overview of the whole online dating phenomenon, peppered with "fly on the wall" anecdotes from people whose experiences aren't always the most positive. a real-world view of online dating as told from a journalist's perspective.

READ THIS BOOK!!!

I don't think I could give it a more enthusiastic recommendation. I just read here that another reviewer compared it to an episode of Sex and The City, and that is very true. Like the TV show this book, has many hilarious and very moving stories of the ups and downs of the dating game that anyone can relate to. Unlike Sex and the City, it's not all about spoiled New York City girls. There are stories of people from the heartland looking for love, middle aged small town people who have been divorced three times before finding true love online, lonely grandmothers, even people in China. The book also manages to impart some useful advice about writing your online dating profile, and about which sites you might want to consider joining.

Changed my ideas about online dating -- for the better!

A friend who has been prodding me to try online dating for over a year now gave this book to me as a way to show that everyone is doing it. She has been telling me this over and over again but I never could manage to take the leap. Then I read this book and I learned that that most singles today, and especially professional urban singles, are all socializing online. I had been missing out!This book has so many cute and funny stories of people who met online. I had only read three chapters when I put the book down, sat down at my computer, and signed up for Match.com. I've met a great guy and we have our third date this week! Orr's book is insightful and entertaining and also gives you a lot of good ideas about how to present yourself online and how to wade through all the responses you receive.

If You Like Watching Sex in the City, You'll Love This Book

A great read! Orr gives an overview of the people out there doing it, and the range of services offered, but more than that, she weaves in so many funny personal stories of the ups and downs of the process that I feel like I'm watching an episode of Sex and the City. The end result is that this book is entirely useful for anyone considering online dating, but you could also be happily married and enjoy reading it. It's a hoot!

Fascinating on so many levels

Meeting, Mating and Cheating provides an honest and thought-provoking look at the world of online dating. By following her subjects over the course of a year, Orr gives her readers a sense of all the different people who opt for online dating -- the young and the old, gay and straight, the urban and the rural dwellers, those seeking spouses and others just looking for friendship. The personal stories were sometimes poignant and sometimes just plain funny. I will always remember the single mother of three who went on line in search of the whole package -- "sex, companionship and the handy guy around the house." The book is well-researched and the prose is lively and accessible. Ms. Orr weaves the personal stories together with information about the business of online dating to create a book that is valuable for online daters as well as investors and others who follow business trends. I highly recommend this book.