T'Internet: The Stanford Experiment

It's the height of the silly season, so what better time to put out a press release about some spurious research and/or survey?
Mail Online report on; How the number of American same-sex couples meeting their partners online has exploded over the past decade.
"The Internet has done wonders for gay singles in search of love," writes the unnamed reporter - a sign it's a ripped-off wire story.
"Within the past decade the number of American same-sex couples that met online has grown exponentially, from about 30 per cent in the early 2000s to nearly 70 per cent in the early 2010s."
"The number of heterosexual couples that met online has also grown significantly over the past ten years, but not nearly as drastically as with same-sex couples.
"That number has grown from about 15 per cent in the early 2000s to about 22 per cent in 2012.
"The findings were published in a study in the American Sociological Review titled ‘Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary.’"
Here's the full 50 page study and data breakdown - it's by some bloke from Stanford University, and academics are never wrong, right?
Though the real shock finding here is surely that some gay men actually do use "gay dating sites/apps", for, err, dating?

• And Queerty report on a survey of 2,000 Grindr users; "77% of them want to get married and in a noteworthy sidebar, 4% of them already are. Whoops. Or rather, wee! Still, tradition trumps threesomes with 76% of users saying they want kids and 59% opposed to open relationships."
So sweet!