The study is titled “Not Just a Wink and a Smile: An Analysis of User-Defined Success in Online Dating”. It’s a study of a two week sample of success story data from the online dating websites Match.com; eHarmony; and OkCupid.

84% of users with ‘successful’ experiences with eHarmony were referring to marriage. That’s quite a majority. However, Match.com’s users were only referring to marriage 46.7% of the time, and OkCupid users 23% of the time. The possible results were ‘dating’; ‘engaged’; and ‘married’. OkCupid, which had the lowest results for marriage success, did have the highest percentile for ‘dating’ ‘success’.

These sort of figures could help you decide which online dating service is right for you. But alternatively, and perhaps more importantly, it also provides a good excuse to think about online dating success. Not only are success stories out there, but what do you want from online dating? I think it’s good to consider dating someone regularly a success on its own. If you want more, then great. But I think you should always try to see littler things as successes in their own right too. A lot of success definitely comes from online dating websites, which is awesome.

The duo is New Yourker Kayli Stollak, 24, and her grandmother, Gail, who lives in Florida. They offer each other encouragement, and condolences, where necessary. Usually hilarious quips, especially from Gail, litter the site. “Better he stands ya up now, than at the alter,” said Gail, after Kayli was stood up for a date.

An almost instant hit, with 30k views within the first month alone, the blog is going from strength to strength. Hopefully the blog will continue to delight its users, though with dates lined up for January, it might not be long before these witty gals find themselves a special someone, and hang-up the online dating hat. Hopefully it won’t be too soon, though, ladies.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2079467/Granny-wingman-How-blog-relating-online-dating-experiences-girl-grandmother-internet-hit.html#ixzz1i3GfpxRQ

But hang on a minute… what about those internet dating success stories? What about those who find love after meeting through online dating, at a singles event like speed dating or on a singles holiday?

Research into British behaviour suggests that only 2/10 of us let others know when they have had a good experience, but this rises to a whopping 7/10 who want to shout from the rooftops when they have endured a bad experience with anything. Typical Brits – we never complain to those responsible but grumble to all of our friends and family – we’re just too polite!

It seems that online dating is just the same.

Whist many want to share with the world their disastrous date, those who find ‘the one’ are content with keeping their life-changing experience all too quiet. Is it because we’re still worried about the stigma of meeting someone via a dating service?