Personal Interest E-Communities Alex James, Chelsea Howard, Maggie Phillips, Jacob Carpenter

Personal Interest E-Communities These types of communities are websites that users will go on for recreational use and will choose based on their own likes and dislikes as well as personality. The most common examples would be dating websites.

Dating Websites Examples would be Eharmony, Match, Jdate, ChristianMingle, and many many more. These websites are extremely popular, 1 in 5 relationships start online.

Eharmony Is an online dating website used to connect singles for long-term relationships. Launched in August 2000 Has members in 150 countries Has over 33 million members 542 Eharmony couples get married each day

Christian Mingle General Info Used by singles to try and find a life long partner that is of Christian religion. Has nearly 500,000 members. It costs about $30 a month, which is less than other dating sites. Free trial available, but with limited access. Created in Customer service is available 24/7. Easy to navigate on the website.

Personal Interest: Match.com Match.com is an online dating sight who’s purpose, basically, is to help singles find their perfect “match” and to create a relationship that they have been searching for. Each member on match.com is a single who is looking for a relationship. Each member has the opportunity to express themselves and tell about themselves through free writing and pictures on their profiles,which other singles will have the opportunity to scroll through and see, to pick their perfect “match”. More than 20 million members use match.com!!

Jdate.com Targets the desire of people to communicate and begin relationships with Jewish people The main users are Jewish but others are welcome to use the site. J date is informal because it is judged and kept alive by the people The personal interest of people and groups of people regulate and organize. Jdate.com is the equivalent of match.com