Outline Informative Speech
Topic: On –Line Dating
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the history and three major aspects of on-line dating.
Thesis Statement: There are some key facts and background data to online dating with its history of negative and positive outcomes, and the steps you could take to date safety and effectively.
Introduction
Hello, everyone.
Let’s talk fun! Let’s talk on-line dating!
Now, most of us are familiar with the concept of on-line dating. On-line dating originates from the mid 1990’s and its popularity has been increasing in recent years. Some of us remember the popular Tom Hanks movie “You’ve Got Mail” in 1998 and with its release on-line dating started to gain full speed. But, did you know that the first matrimonial service was created in a form of newspaper ads in 1700, just shortly after appearance of the first newspaper? That’s according to the article History of On-Line Dating, of course, I found on line.
Living in technologically inclined society, I am certain that some of us listening to the beginning of this presentation are probably already thinking: “What else is there to know about on-line dating?!” But did you know that according to just cited article, “in 2007 Americans alone spent over $500 000 000 on online dating”? Apparently, for less than a decade on-line dating has not only become highly popular, but it has transformed into industry.
Popular on-line dating websites are more than few. Among popular on-line dating websites are Match.com, EHarmony.com, Singles Net. com ,Ok Cupid and so on. In fact the on-line dating websites are so many in present days that there is a fun fact about Match. com founder Gary Kreman. In 2011 The Week magazine reported that his girlfriend “dumped” him for someone she found on-line, on Match.com in particular.
But let’s not be fooled. With its positive and negative effects, on-line dating could raise some safety issue among