Falling in love on the internet

By Ken Y-N ( May 1, 2012 at 01:14) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Today?s first bit of silliness is from goo Ranking as usual, loooking at when men fall in love on the internet. There?s no female version yet, but I?ll be sure to bring it to you if I see it. Note that I?m a day late, but as this Sunday?s public holiday was moved back to Monday, I shall do the same?

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This question was for the men only.

I find it curious that most of the moments listed below would be in SNS-type situations; perhaps I am showing my age and/or habits by feeling the lack of online game or straight-forward bulletin board-type situations?

Ranking results

Q: At what moment have you fallen in love on the internet? (Sample size=454, male)

Rank	?	Score
1	When I can empathise with her way of thinking	100
2	When her real profile photo is cute or beautiful	99.2
3	When she has similar hobbies	76.6
4	When I?m feeling down and she posts a gentle comment	75.0
5	When she frequently comments	67.7
6	When she posts ?Good morning!?, ?Good night!?, etc comments every day	60.5
7	When she has a cute use of words	59.7
8	When I feel she is opening her heart to me	54.0
9	When she shows concern when I?m in a bad mood	45.2
10	When she makes a lengthy response to me	43.5
11	When she always seems to be having fun	38.7
12	When she has fresh values that I don?t have	37.9
13=	When she has a girlie profile picture	27.4
13=	When she has values that I can look up to	27.4
15	When she sometimes comes to me for advice	26.6
16	When she has a lot of surprisingly entertaining utterances	25.8
17	When the music she listens to, programmes she watches, events she attends, etc, are often in sync with me	20.2
18=	When I want to protect her when she seems lonely	17.7
18=	When she seems so gentle when she weeps about her love of animals	17.7
20=	When I get curious about her profile history, comment, etc	15.3
20=	When she always seems to cook delicious food	15.3
22	When our times of going to bed, getting up are in sync	12.1
23	When she believes even in stories that seem untrue	11.3
24	When she mimics my speech patterns, use of smilies	9.7
25	When she often Likes, +1?s my posts	6.5

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