One in Seven People in the UK Have Partners They Have Only Spoken to Online, Reveals Study

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A new study by the satellite broadband provider Europasat revealed that one in seven people have started an online relationship with another person without actually knowing who the person is. This includes not just them not meeting the person they’ve started a relationship with but also them not knowing the true identity of the person on the other side of the computer.
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A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Facebook logo as he poses with a Samsung S4 smartphone in this file photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica August 14, 2013. One in two Americans worry that Internet companies are encroaching too much upon their lives, uneasy about Facebook’s and Google’s ability to gather their personal data, as the companies delve deeper into novel areas such as smart home appliances and drones.

The survey was carried out on 2,000 people in the U.K. The survey looked at online relationships such as friendship and love. It also looked at how people viewed the virtual world, their online shopping habits, their privacy settings and the frequency by which they used the web.

Source: au.ibtimes.com

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