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RATH: Now, there's a new site for an even more niche audience: missionaries and other Christians moving abroad. CLAIRE: If they're overseas making the world a better place one way or another, we want to empower them to stay there. CLAIRE: It could be someone who's founding an orphanage or somebody who is working for an NGO, because a lot of them are coming back to America because of loneliness, because they don't have a spouse and they don't have hope of finding one overseas. And so they return. And I imagine someone who is already married and settled with a family in a way. You know, I think in America in general, about 50 percent of the population is single.

With nearly 40 percent of Americans over 50 single and many looking for love online, dating sites are catering to this fast-growing market. Vicki Cherco, 58, of Libertyville, Ill. Her most recent date went well. Even though the site caters to older adults, in Cherco's experience, not all of her dates act that mature. For example, there was her first — and only — date with a French man who noticed her rubbing her sore arm. I don't even know your last name. Cherco, who's divorced, started dating through online sites a few years ago after her son was grown and she'd had no luck with meeting a man through work, at the gym or at church.

You're single, and it's Valentine's Day. All Things Considered, you're feeling a little blue. You want to have a driveway moment with someone. Not just Car Talk, but an evening that ends with you sharing tomorrow's Morning Edition over breakfast. So you turn on the radio for solace.

It's Valentine's Day, and if you aren't giving roses to someone special — or getting them — you might be thinking ahead to next year. But OkCupid and Match. These days, whether you're gay or straight, the online dating scene is all about apps. Like a lot of technological change, apps bring efficiency to the process. But that isn't always a good thing.