| Online dating: useful tips for the fresh online dater | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 10:24:26 AM by Alex Molin | In today's world, dating has many forms. There is the traditional way of finding a date through your mom's friend, but the most common way today is what is known as online dating. It has many advantages:  The first one is that it is discreet - no one has to know you are in the singles market except for those who are there themselves.
The second advantage is that you can choose someone you like from a wide range of candidates, and the best advantage is that at the early stages, you can reject anyone without any pangs of conscience. Online dating has its own etiquettes and to succeed in the game, you should follow the rules.
Here are some tips for the fresh online dater: There are many dating web sites operating on the web. Many are reliable but not all. So find those who have a good reputation and that allow you to feel safe and comfortable. Find those who will keep your email confidential and that profanity is not allowed in them.
If you are really serious I suggest you skip the free option many sites offer (to attract you) and step to the real league. It will cost you a bit (not too much) but there are many benefits. You will be able to use many options that are not available to the free users. (For example smart filtering and smart matching).
After finding the right site, all you have to do is register in one or two of them by filling a profile form with your personal details, description of how you look, what you like to do, hobbies, interests, what you are looking for etc. My advice is to be honest in your profile, that means displaying an updated picture (not from 10 years ago when you where at your peak). After all your aim is to find someone who will like you just the way you are and the truth will come out anyway, so its better to hand it immediately and not wait and sometimes cause damage due to that unnecessary delay. I also suggest you will own a separate email account that you will use just for online dating and choose a username that will reflect your personality.
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| | | Take Back Valentine's Day!" Leading Internet Dating Guru Warns Men | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:51:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Grant Adams, the nation's leading internet dating guru, advises men to take back Valentine's Day to its roots so that Men can be masters of their dating lives again. Adams is conducting a Free Teleseminar to train men how to wildly attract the women they want online. They can register at TakeBackValentinesDay.com. [ClickPress, Fri Feb 09 2007] "Guys hate Valentine's Day!" blasts Grant Adams, the nation's leading Online Dating Success Guru, "and today I am calling on all single guys to finally chuck the bouquets and 'Take Back Valentine's Day.' " Adams began his crusade because he's tired of seeing single men go a-begging. "They make a big show of fakery and flattery, throwing away money on flowers, chocolates and over-priced meals." "Enough!" says Adams, "Men resent it.... | |
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| | | Guidelines help craft the ideal online dating profile | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:51:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK -- It's that time of year when roses seem to bloom from the concrete, chocolate hearts rain from the sky and amorous couples clog every street corner. February can be a hard month to be single. If Cupid keeps passing you by, maybe it's time to join the legions heading to dating Web sites -- or, if you've already been there-done that, brush the cobwebs off your profile and give it another shot. But don't wade into the digital dating pool uneducated. With tens of millions of people looking for love online, you've got to work doubly hard to stand out. "Think of it as going to a party," Jesse Keller said. She's president of Personals Trainer, a Web site that helps online daters. "If you have a great profile, it's like being the life of the party.... | |
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| | | OkCupid Raises $6 Million | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:52:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | OkCupid, a free online dating site, has raised $6 million from a group of angels, CEO Sam Yagan told GigaOM. Each time I talk to Yagan about his new company, he pulls out some variation on the same line: "Our goal is to reduce GDP by half a million dollars by completely eliminating the subscription online dating market." Yagan says he can run a successful dating site without making people pay, something PlentyofFish has also had success with. OkCupid currently has 600,000 active users (measured as those who've logged on in the last 90 days). It's not apples-to-apples, but leader Match.com has 1.3 million subscribers. PlentyofFish reports a quarter million users logging in per day. "All of the big guys think users want to pay for dating because paying for something equals quality," says Yagan.... | |
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| | | Privacy a concern as social online sites become fair game | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:52:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO — Walls of an auditorium were covered with thousands of sheets of paper — printouts from MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and other online sites that were filled with back-stabbing gossip, unflattering images, and details about partying and dating exploits. Each posting was easily accessed online, no password needed. But seeing them on paper — and in some cases, being asked to read them aloud — grabbed the attention of members of the North American Federation of Temple Youth, who gathered earlier this year at a camp outside New York City. That each of the pages mentioned their organization in some way only made it that much more embarrassing. "They saw themselves and often their friends, completely open, all the way around the room," said Dean Carson, president of the group for Jewish youth and a freshman at George Washington University.... | |
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| | | I.Q. Webquest To Offer Relationship Workshop Forums to Its Subscribers; Hosted by Best Selling Published Authors and | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:56:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | I.Q. Webquest (OTC Pink Sheets: IQWB) is proud to announce that TheUltimateDatingSite.com will be providing relationship insight and practical dating advice to its subscribers through workshop forums facilitated by best selling published authors as well as licensed relationship counselors. I.Q. Webquest's goal is to enlighten, educate, and inspire participants through its workshop forums, which will provide the "new generation of online daters" an enriching and meaningful way to candidly evaluate themselves in order to better achieve individual relationship objectives. The guiding principles behind the I.Q. Webquest workshop forums will be to first self evaluate what each individual brings to a relationship and what expectations they may have during a relationship.... | |
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| | | AOL launches online dating service | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:58:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | America Online has launched a new online dating service, banking on making a match in financial heaven from the millions of singles flirting in its bustling chat service. The new service, Love.com (www.love.com), is being built on the AOL Instant Messenger service, which already has 50 million users. It will compete with longstanding online dating services like Match.com, which lets users communicate by traditional e-mail. Love.com is initially being offered at no cost, but AOL, the Internet unit of media conglomerate Time Warner, said it will begin charging by Valentine's Day. Love.com is the second consumer business initiative from AOL, following the debut in September of an online games service feature, that is also played over the instant messaging service. AOL declined to disclose specifics about the service.... | |
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| | | Fox Valley man stood up by date in $5,265 online scam | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:01:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | TOWN OF MENASHA Police say a man who thought he had cultivated a long-distance relationship with a Russian woman online and by telephone has been swindled out of more than $5,000. Lt. Doug Jahsman said the victim, who was in the military overseas when he started corresponding in September with the 29-year-old woman after responding to a personal ad on an Internet dating site, came to police Tuesday after she failed to arrive by plane last Friday. On four occasions, he wired money to the Russian woman totaling $5,265 for various reasons, including alleged medical exams, travel tickets and funds for her bank account to make sure she returned home. "He's realizing he got duped big-time" but he came to police so others were "notified of the scam," Jahsman said.... | |
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| | | Online dating scams on the rise in the US | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:59:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | HAMPTON FALLS -- Scam artists are tapping into the online dating market, and in two cases in Hampton Falls, have stolen thousands of dollars from women who thought they had a romantic relationship. The Hampton Falls Police Department is investigating two cases of online fraud. The local women were duped out of thousands of dollars they'll likely never recover, Police Chief Robbie Dirsa said. It could happen to anyone, said Dirsa, whose officer, Jeremy Tetreault, spoke at an identity theft seminar in Hampton this past Thursday. Dirsa described both victims as professional women scammed by expert salesmen. One case began in January 2002, he said, after one woman met a man online through the Yahoo Personals. She loaned him, over the course of more than a year, $109,000 for his alleged trucking business, Dirsa said.... | |
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| | | Get a life and leave the real you at home in virtual online world | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:56:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dave Evans, a computer consultant in Boston who edits a blog about online dating, was hanging out in a strip club the other day when he noticed an extremely tall woman with horns and a tail standing next to him. He thought about asking her to take off her shirt -- hey, they were both in a strip club -- but thought the better of it. "It turned out she was the brand manager of a multinational corporation," said Evans, 38. "Thank God I didn't ask her to take off her top! I bought her a beer and we did talk about doing business together." Evans' confusion is understandable. The woman in question was not so much a woman as a digital representation of one, or an avatar. The beer he bought her was virtual. The strip club was in Second Life, the online 3-D interactive world built by San Francisco's Linden Lab, which currently boasts 1.2 million registered users.... | |
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| | | Online dating scams on the rise in the U.S. | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:00:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | HAMPTON FALLS -- Scam artists are tapping into the online dating market, and in two cases in Hampton Falls, have stolen thousands of dollars from women who thought they had a romantic relationship. The Hampton Falls Police Department is investigating two cases of online fraud. The local women were duped out of thousands of dollars they'll likely never recover, Police Chief Robbie Dirsa said. It could happen to anyone, said Dirsa, whose officer, Jeremy Tetreault, spoke at an identity theft seminar in Hampton this past Thursday. Dirsa described both victims as professional women scammed by expert salesmen. One case began in January 2002, he said, after one woman met a man online through the Yahoo Personals. She loaned him, over the course of more than a year, $109,000 for his alleged trucking business, Dirsa said.... | |
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