With the obsession that today’s media has with youth and appearance, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s only the young who are looking for companionship, that dating is a young person’s game. Which of the following images do you think the media is more likely to use to accompany an article on online dating? At the same time, more older adults over 55 find themselves single and looking, either through divorce or the tragic loss of a husband or wife they loved for many years.

This means that there are more seniors and baby boomers than ever before looking for some companionship to fill the void of their prior partner.

Now she’s online and loving it—and you can be, too.

These days, most 50-somethings surf the web and zip off emails just as easily as their younger counterparts, so the transition to the world of online dating is easy.

But I ask anyone who agrees with his views to consider this question: If you want to buy a new car, you’d naturally go out and find one—you wouldn’t wait until the right car happened to drive right past you. Whether you’ve always been curious about online dating or have done it before but gotten overwhelmed, here are some tips and techniques to help you master this new dating domain.

We thought it was high time we republished it here, updated to reflect what we’ve learned from the thousands of people who have registered for Stitch so far and told us their stories. We are all living decades longer than we once did, and are staying fitter, healthier (and in some cases, friskier) further into our wisdom years than ever before.

The response was overwhelming: 500 registrations in less than 3 days, and over 250 very detailed comments.

We realized immediately that our little trial of online dating for seniors was something that resonated with people all over the world, and that we needed to go ahead and build something that would help us touch the lives of older adults everywhere.

f you’re single and over 50, where do you meet that special someone?

Online dating may seem like an obvious route for younger generations, but a single guy friend of mine who’s in his fifties recently voiced his objection to this popular, powerful dating tool.