Dating in the News
When you need some inspiration to keep your online dating adventure alive turn to our blog and you’ll find interesting information that should keep you going. Read on.
Liar, Liar . . And the Perils of Online Dating. Voxy
Running a largely offline dating site as we do at Matchcompany, in the sense that we seek to vet members before taking them into our paid membership, we try to avoid the phony profile issue faced by online dating sites. In the US a recent survey showed …
Dating, Decency, Douchebags & Drinking. The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. (blog)
Is it too much to ask that people be decent when dating? If you are looking to get laid, looking for love, or not even sure what you are looking for, why can’t you just be decent? Why is it so hard to take the feelings of others into consideration when …
Gen Ys increasingly logging on to Internet to find love. Newstrack India
Dating website eHarmony has revealed that registrations from those aged 18-24 have jumped by 381 per cent since 2008 in spite of the negative views towards looking for love online, The Courier Mail reported. Spokeswoman Sarah Mason said other …
How To Navigate The First Date. Daily Beast
As part of its Singles in America series, Match.com (which is owned by IAC, the parent company of Newsweek/The Daily Beast) has studied the dating behavior and preferences of 5,000 singles and 1,000 married people. Their sample comes not from …
Online Dating Tips
We all want to find the right dates when we look for dates, right?
Here are some tips to help you get started with dating online and making lasting friends and even finding lovers.
27 Words That Should Never Ever Be a Part of an Online Dating Username. Glamour (blog)
I once had a guy ask me, in my professional opinion, if profile names mattered when it came to online dating. Whether my opinion was sought as a professional dating blogger or just a professional single person (ouch), I told him it didn’t really …
Single Christians experiencing ‘anxiety’. ChristianToday
Online dating service Christian Connection has spent the last few months surveying thousands of single Christians on their experiences in the church. The decline in younger people attending church means many single Christians are struggling not only to …
Digital Get Down: Perfect your profile. Daily Northwestern
What’s one of the most obvious advantages of online dating? You have the chance to tell people all the wonderful things about you before they even meet you. You can put your best (virtual) foot forward and create a profile that will show off how unique …
How to look for love and companionship online. Edmonds Beacon
Dating sites have become enormously popular among the older generation in recent years. In fact, boomers and seniors make up about 20 percent of online daters today, and the numbers keeps growing. Here’s what you should know. If you’re interested in …
Online Dating in the News
Dating website: A rising trend to meet new someone new. Setonian
I’ll admit, I was a skeptic and had a negative point of view regarding online dating tools. I used to say “If we can’t meet someone in person, then we are absolutely pathetic.” I believed that not meeting people in a face-to-face setting was deceiving …
Why More Religious Singles Are Searching for Love Online. PBS NewsHour (blog)
Faith-based online dating websites like ChristianMingle for Christians and JDate for Jews have increased in popularity since 2008. Images courtesy of Spark Network. Jen Spencer had the jitters before she met up with her date Kenneth at an amusement …
Why Is It SO Uncomfortable When This Happens in Online Dating? Glamour (blog)
Why is it soooo embarrassing to come across people you know in real life when online dating? I can’t explain it but it just is! I’m not embarrassed to online date, and clearly, I’m not embarrassed to share my stories about it with all of you. But for …
Can’t Buy Love? Mail-Order Bride Websites Thrive In America. Radar Online
Male-order bride websites are aiming to become just like dating website Match.com, RadarOnline.com reports. Sites like AnastasiaDate which “offers a thrilling companionship with romantic and caring women from abroad” have rebranded themselves as …
Everything’s Possible: Online Dating in the News
This time around we learn a lot of interesting answers to a few tough dating questions.
Should I not have asked about our relationship status? Boston.com (blog)
I met a guy on an online dating site and we dated for 8 weeks. He took me out every weekend, texted me almost every day and, about a month ago, started calling me during the week. He was a gentleman who always opened the car door and helped me on …
Lap dancing job makes it difficult to find love. The Scottish Sun
Today in Scotland, despite speed dating, online dating sites and matchmaking agencies, some young women and men still struggle to find romance. Many believe they are already on the shelf in their TWENTIES but others believe life has only just begun and …
Dating website finds VDAs are a turn-off on Twitter, Facebook. Herald Sun
Although nearly half those quizzed admitted to changing their Facebook status to “in a relationship”, couples who express their love for each other via social media commit a major faux pas, says the survey by dating website match.com. Romance, love and …
Merry Ho Ho: Online Dating Personal Ad Headline of the Day
Are you in the Christmas spirit yet?
Let me ask you a few questions:
- Does this time of year make you happy or sad?
- Do you feel festive and the happiness of the holidays flowing through your body or do you feel loneliness gaining on you?
- Will you let the opportunities to meet new people pass you by, again?
Friendliness and kindness are the personal attributes that we should exercise all year long and yet this time of year usually shows us how lacking our efforts have been.
Luckily, with the pervasiveness of online dating, meeting people is just a couple of clicks away.
Technology can fill in the gaps of our efforts and meeting people, even someone special, is easier than ever.
Forget the good-intentioned but extremely rude questions about why you’re still single (you know you’ll be asked a few times before the end of the year), look to your computer and start dating for real.
For your personal ad headline today give this a try:
“Forget your Secret Santa, meet a real (man/woman) right now!”
Have a great day!
Online Dating in the News
Dating has it’s own set of rules and steps to follow. It’s good to know that there is also a never-ending stream of ready-to-help dating advice online. Here are the most recent dating advice tips you’ll want to know about.
MidlifeBachelor.com Releases New Dating Tool To Help Men Track Online Dates. DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Let’s face it, online dating can be chaos. For those dating several people at once who they are meeting through online dating websites, a new free and downloadable tool from MidlifeBachelor.com can help overcome the confusion. These days, more people …
Leeds Escorts – Benefits of Online Dating and Escort Services. Melodika.net (press release)
Most of us searching their love or a genuine companion at wrong places. This has created a perception of not finding the true love with the help of so many services who claim that they provide one of the best escort and dating services in the market …
What does a sugar baby want? Independent Online
New dating website Aluxxa.com, now launched in South Africa, caters for young, attractive women, allowing them to filter the profiles of driven, successful men by occupation. But these men aren’t your mother’s idea of sugar daddies. Today’s sugar …
Kiwis not sold on finding love online. New Zealand Herald
The survey by research company UMR, commissioned by online dating service Go Break The Ice, also found 43 per cent of people trusted their friends and families when it comes to dating advice, tips and recommendations. In spite of the figures, the …
The Excuse I Refuse To Accept: ‘It’s Complicated’. Huffington Post (blog)
One such man, we’ll call him Bob, went to elaborate lengths to lie about his status, even using the wrong hometown in his online dating profile. It took a little detective work to figure out what was going on and when I asked if he was married, he …
Dating Profile Headline of the Day: The Date Search
The search of members in your selected online dating service is likely the most important part (next to completing your profile) of your online dating adventure.
Compatibility comes in many flavors and really is beyond the simple physical characteristics of someone. Sense of humor, style of talking, choice of clothing all contribute to the “compatibility scale” that makes someone a god match for you.
Consider all the search options, and not using too narrow of choices, to find your best results.
For your personal ad headline today give this a try:
“Am I looking for you? Maybe, let’s talk.”
Have a great day!
Online Dating in the News
Here we are, fascinating information about online dating in our world. Let the adventure begin!
Timberlake: Online dating expands potential pool, proves viable. Iowa State Daily
For the past three months, I have been experimenting with online dating. Piqued by curiosity and listening to friends’ first-hand accounts of various websites, I decided to make an OkCupid account. Recently purchased by Match.com, OkCupid is …
NC woman shares an online dating horror story. WBTW – Myrtle Beach and Florence SC
RALEIGH, N.C. — With over 50 million users, online dating is showing no signs of slowing down. But with its increasing popularity, risks of meeting someone misrepresenting who they really are, is increasing as well. Lisa of Raleigh, didn’t want to be …
Channel 4 launches Big Brother-style dating show. The Guardian
The mammoth online dating industry has transformed the art of finding love – there are new rules and new codes of conduct. “But at a time when internet dating has made it easier than ever to find dates this season explores why it can seem harder than …
Dating Profile Headline of the Day:The Craziness of it All
Refresh Your Approach With Online Dating
No matter how hard you run towards your goal, it keeps getting farther from you, moving off into the far distance at times, becoming very close only to be pushed back by some nice person that turns out to be an idiot.
There are strategies that help you find the love of your life, or someone compatible enough that during a date you don’t just walk out on them, that are easy enough to find. It’s taking the time to learn them and being strong-willed enough with yourself to actually use them that makes all the difference in the success you will have with your online dating adventure.
The change in your relationship status begins with the way you approach what lies ahead.
For your online dating profile headline today give this a try:
“Give me one good reason…”
Have a great day!
Resources
- The Online Dating Bible
- You and The Art of Online Dating
- How to Get a Man Now
- Strictly Online Dating for Men
- The Little Black Dating Book (for men)
- Datemavens – Change your success in 60 seconds
- Online Dating Explained
- How To Find Your Perfect Match Safely Online
- Winggirls – The Woman Tell-All
- Dating For Geeks
- Man’s Guide to Success with Women
- 500 Secrets About Girls
Online Dating in the News: Joys and Failures
Online dating offers it’s own set of special circumstances, many that are not apparent to first timers. To brace yourself for unexpected experiences we offer this semi-regular post of news items specific to online dating and it’s joys and failures.
10 Biggest Lies On Online Dating Profiles. WhatCulture!
Up until this point, I’ve only had two lasting relationships, one of which I have a dating website to thank for. It regretfully ended, but I got a best friend out of it, as cheesy as that may sound. Simply put, there are worse ways to get out into the …
Tandem, The Online Dating Site That Helps Wingmen Pair Their Single Friends. Huffington Post
If your best friend is single, doesn’t want to be but refuses to date online (despite constant badgering), thanks to Tandem, you can finally do it for her. Tandem, which launches on Wednesday, is bringing the concept of the “wingman” and “wingwoman” to …
Protecting Yourself in the Online Dating World. PsychCentral.com (blog)
Last week in this space I wrote about ways you can successfully date and even meet that special someone via online dating, provided you understand from the start that successful Internet dating can often be more like a part-time job than a recreational …
Shooting Suspect Accused of Creating Fake Online Dating Profile for Sheriff. WSAV-TV
A tow truck driver accused of shooting and killed another man is back in the spotlight after he allegedly created a fake online dating profile for Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner. Preston Oates is accused of shooting Carlos Olivera after a parking …
Knox Lovemaker: On-campus online dating gets personal. The Knox Student (blog)
For some Knoxians, the dropping temperatures and brisk autumn breezes of fall term come with a sense of longing — one that simply cannot be satisfied with late-night Broadview hash browns or a rousing Senior Meeting. The young woman in the Ford …
Do online marriages increase the chance of divorce? bdaily
Although times are certainly changing, the world of online dating has yet to leave its history of suspicion and stigma behind. Where once the world of online dating was seen as a last resort for those who had little hope left to find a relationship, we …
Making Online Dating Success Happen
Three things you must do to make yourself more successful at any online dating service.
Honesty: Many people make the mistake that online dating is just a fantasy experience, not fully realizing that eventually what they say about themselves online needs to match up with what the people they will meet in the real world meet to avoid disappointment.
High Expectations: We are sold the “meet your perfect match” experience which often is not an attainable goal. Not because your perfect match isn’t out there but because you’re looking for the 100% match not the 70% match that allows you the true experience we find in the real world. Dating is part mystery, finding things out about a person to share and learn to love, when possible. Looking only for people who are a perfect match with your ideals will only lead to dating disillusion.
Have Perseverance: There are three things most definitely true in life: death, taxes and you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince (or princess). Online dating mirrors life in that not too much happens when we expect it to happen, but when we are least expecting love, it happens. Take your time and enjoy the single dating life and you’ll enjoy life a lot more than if you act and look desperate.
All Shook Up: Personal Ad Headline Of the Day
Read All About Me!
No many times you find her (or him).
Many people are in love with being in love, watch out for them, they “change ships” frequently.
When you find “the one” you may not know it right away. But you also may find out too late too.
It’s a balancing act that many people have to follow.
Online dating ads give you an advantage over “the usual methods” of meeting and dating because there is so much “first hand” information that people share in their online profiles. Some times too much information.
But if you can intuitively read through the lines you’ll find your sweetheart too.
For your personal ad headline give this a try:
“Read All About Me!”
Have a great day!
There’s Nothing Like Love: Personal Ad headline of the Day
The love story minstrel
I mean, when you are in love and know you’re loved back the feelings you feel go beyond rainbows and puppies.
You know that you’re safe and that no matter what, things will work out for the better, anything that will happen will make you and your partner into an even stronger-in-love couple.
It’s what we all want, when we get down to the “nuts and bolts” of why we do what we do.
So toss back your fears and leap forward into love. Life doesn’t last forever but when you find true love you’ll know that the love will survive the ages.
For your online dating personal ad today give this a try:
“Minstrels will sing of us as a love story for the ages.”
Have a great day!
Infographic: Does Online Dating Work?
Infographic: Does online dating work?
