In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry survey titled “How Has Internet Dating Changed Society?” The survey responses, from 39 executives, produced the following conclusions:<br /><br />“Internet dating has made people more disposable.”<br /><br />“Internet dating may be partly responsible for a rise in the divorce rates.”<br /><br />“Low quality, unhappy and unsatisfying marriages are being destroyed as people drift to Internet dating sites.”<br /><br />“The market is hugely more efficient … People expect to—and this will be increasingly the case over time—access people anywhere, anytime, based on complex search requests … Such a feeling of access affects our pursuit of love … the whole world (versus, say, the city we live in) will, increasingly, feel like the market for our partner(s). Our pickiness will probably increase.”<br /><br />“Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”<br /><br />From "A Million First Dates<br />How online romance is threatening monogamy" in January/February 2013