Is online Dating still considered a Tabooed way to meet Singles?

Love at first byte by the Daily Record looks at the question about if Online Dating is still a tabooed subject and if couples are embarrassed to tell others how they met online. The author contacted 10 local couples to tell their story and only one gave their permission. Apparently based on just this statistic the author assumed that people do not want to share their online dating experiences. The article does mention the point of "Some people certainly don't want their personal lives splashed on the newspaper's pages.". This is certainly true but, I think the author should of increased the number of people he asked to share their online dating experience with. He should of also asked couples who didn't meet online if they would be willing to share how they met each other. I bet when he compared the two results, the ratio would be not as bad as he thinks it is.

Early last year we did a poll called Do you tell your friends you're Dating Online?. Of the 330 votes, just over 43% said they would tell their friends. So this means almost half of the people said they would share their online dating experiences. This is a much better result than 1 out of 10 that the Daily Record assumed. Of the 86 voters who said no in our poll, the reason for this was they did not want their friends to see their dating profile and the personal information it contained. This makes sense to me but, it is a little weird that it is ok for strangers to see some of your personal details but not your friends. I think this can especially hold true for men. You want your image to remain tough and macho to your male friends, so you can't show them you have a soft side in which your dating profile might portray.