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"What role does technology play in your social life? Do you Google someone before the first date? Is Facebook the first place you go to announce your relationship status? Is sexting a part of your flirting? \nThe folks at Match.com were wondering too, and conducted a digital dating survey, asking over 5,000 single and married people about their dating habits.\nIt seems women do much of their pre-date homework online; 48% of single women research a partner on Facebook before the first date (vs. 38% of men). But men would rather find out for themselves in person \u2014 nearly half of single men (49%) think researching someone prior to a first date is unacceptable.\nBefore you clean up your apartment, you might want to clean up your Facebook page. Across all ages, 27% of single men and 26% of single women have or would clean up their Facebook wall before accepting a friend request from a potential date. Singles in their 20s (36%) particularly likely to keep their Facebook walls nice and tidy. \nInterestingly, not many singles are using Facebook to find a date, though that may change soon with the release of Facebook's Graph Search. Almost three quarters of singles are on Facebook, but only 7% used sites like Facebook to find their most recent dates.  \nSEE ALSO: 10 Dating Apps to Help You Find True Love\n\nWhen it comes to sexting, the survey found 32% of singles have sent a sext and 51% have received one. \nDr. Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and chief scientific adviser to Match.com says sexting is the modern way to find a mate \u2014 using technology to act on a deep evolutionary strategy. \"Young people have to reproduce, have to pass on their DNA,\" she says, and \"sexting is like a peacock shimmering its tail feathers.\"\nAs for the risky behavior, Fisher says it's a brain thing. \"If you're madly in love, certain parts of the brain actually shut down, you make poor decisions.  Sexting among the young is because someone has fallen in love and wants to win someone else.\" So it's true we're not always thinking with our brains.\nThere's more info about digital and dating in the below infographic. Take a look and let us know if any of the stats surprise you. \n\nHomepage image via iStockphoto, pearleye"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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