"We met through friends." For a long time, that's how my parents believed I met my fiancé. (It wasn't a lie; the Internet is my friend...) They didn't understand the modern phenomenon of online dating and I was worried they'd see the Web, much as we all did a decade ago, as "the last refuge of the undateable," in the words of Greg Forgatch, the CEO of eHarmony. But, as Forgatch explains, the stigma over the years has decreased as users increased, and people are no longer secretive about meeting and dating online.
So neither am I. My parents now know that we met through nerve.com, even if they have no idea what it is.