Not to mention the dating horror stories when you actually do meet up and find you're totally incompatible.

I've heard there can be some real animals out there! Meet Spruce, the one-year-old Humboldt penguin who is jumping into the online dating pool.

It describes his likes - which include seafood and swimming – and his relationship needs – ‘a partner for life who I can make some little chicks with, as I'm a family man at heart.’ Sarah is now appealing for the public to share Spruce’s Plenty of Fish profile on their social media pages and spread the word to help him find a mate.

Penguins are very affectionate birds by nature and often mate for life.

Plenty of Fish is one of the most popular dating websites and always has been.

The site has over 100 million users around the world, over 3 million active daily users, and over 50,000 new singles joining every day.

Our experts have put together some of the key facts you should know about the site and app, which work in pretty much the same way.The parents were seeking compensatory and punitive damages.In an August 2012 interview, Markus Frind stated that based on the millions of relationships and marriages Plenty Of Fish has created over the past several years, it is estimated that over one million babies have been born as a result of the website. -- Law enforcement is warning the public that robbers are using internet dating websites and meet-up apps to target their victims.What often starts with a voluptuous photograph of a woman posted on a dating website or app like Plenty of Fish, Tinder and Backpage often ends in a robbery on a dark street in Petersburg, police said. James Darrington, a detective with Petersburg Police, said pointing to where one such crime occurred.