One in seven people have partners they've only spoken to online

The practice may seem odd to most people, but according to a survey, one in seven people have started an online relationship with someone they have never actually met.A further 25 per cent admitted to having flirtatious conversations with somebody they had never met.The research was carried out by satellite broadband provider Europasat, and involved 2,000 UK respondents.It also indicated an online environment where more than a third of Facebook users said they have ‘friends’ they have never met in person.And four per cent claimed to be friends with only people they knew in real life.Nearly half of all users, meanwhile, did not have any active privacy settings, while nearly a quarter said they were more confident speaking on social platforms than in real life.Approximately a third of those polled said they would say things on social media that they normally wouldn’t in real life.The survey also looked at shopping habits online, with more than a third of people saying they would impulse buy when shopping online.For news, 44 per cent of respondents used their social media accounts as a news source over actual news media.Half of all the females surveyed said they found out about breaking news stories in this way.And the majority of both males and females claimed they wouldn't last a day without using the web.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az