Archive for Online Dating
Single Men: There Are Too Many Women on Online Dating Sites
Posted by: | CommentsOnline Dating site Match.com is getting ready to start a new summer TV campaign that targets single men. The campaign is called “Too Many Women” and is accompanied by a 7 day free trial offer.
Single men were the first to try online dating with the advent of the internet, and in the beginning made up 60-70% of online dating sites. Over time, the women have caught up and surpassed the number of men on online dating sites.
Men that sign up for the free trial before the 14 September will get one week free. The offer will be accompanied by the original and best ‘make love happen guarantee’ from match.com which promises that those signing up who don’t find love in six months, will get six months free.
Ten Reasons I Won’t Date You
Posted by: | CommentsOnline dating has it’s moments. The weird and icky people you come across as you peruse the profiles your search. And the even more bizarre folks that write you. Here are the reasons single women will hit the DELETE button:
10. Your entire profile consists of some of the following phrases:
“fun-loving”, “open-minded” and “looking for that “special friend, lover” sounds like you are just looking for sex or exotic sex
“I’ll tell you later” in response to questions posed by the online dating service (tells us you are uncommitted to an answer, lazy, or just looking for something casual).
“Simple man” tells us that you are a bore.
“No Mind Games Please” tells us you have had bad experiences with women and don’t trust them.
“Laid-back and “enjoying life to its fullest” We all love fun. Everyone seems to think they are laid back. They are NOT. And if you were living life to its fullest, you would be having on hot date right now instead of messing around on the internet trying to find someone to have it with.
9. Your online dating profile has:
-the number “69″ such as Steve 69 I don’t care of you were born in 1969, the sexual innuendo in your profile name is enough to make me run.
-a name that make me want to run: knight in shining armor, knight, tiger, prince, king, vegas, cat, rat, poke, passionate, fox, hound, player, toy
-”New Friends Wanted or Lonely”-makes you sound like a desperate loner
- “A package deal” with a photo of your kids tells me your kids come first and we will never have alone time.
8. All of your photos were taken by yourself, using a cell phone camera or webcam. Get some friends to take you photo. By the way, we can tell by the hair cut and the clothes the photo is ten years old.
7. You are way out of my age range . I am not looking for a rich sugar daddy or celebrity, nor am I looking for a boy. If you are old enough to have kids in college. or young enough to think that stolen street signs are appropriate decor, do not contact me.
6. Your photo is shirtless/bare-chested. Sorry, but when we see a photo of a guy from a computer web cam bare-chested we assume he sits at his computer naked, and plays with himself while watching porn.
5. Currently separated is NOT legally divorced. I don’t care you are a week from signing the papers. Don’t wink or email me until the papers have been signed. In fact, don’t‚ wink until you’ve had a year or two to adjust. I’m really not interested in being your rebound relationship. Actually, don’t wink until you’ve been divorced long enough to at least question whether or not your marriage was that bad, and you’re really ready to get into a long-term relationship again. And if it was divorce #3, don’t wink, don’t email, don’t bother me.
4. If your hair is longer than mine, I don’t think you are a rebel, I think you have gender issues. My world is a mullet-free, clean cut, clean shaven zone.
3. Ball caps are for frat boys, or outdoor sports and beards tell me you are too lazy too shave or a secretive person. If I see you in a “lid” I assume I will have to see you in person wearing a “lid” all the time. We also assume a guy in a lid for a primary photo is hiding a bald head or a rug. Oh, and goatees are so 2000. Get with the times. Your main photo should show your full face, hair cut, and cleanly shaved
2. Spell and grammer check. Use it.
1. If I enjoyed exchanging raunchy emails and phone calls with perfect strangers, I would be getting paid for it. When I receive emails and calls that are raunchy I assume you do prostitutes. YUK!
Whether it’s your profile or an email you are sending, think about this ten items as you write and the impression you are giving your online love interest.
Online Dating A Highly Under Penetrated Market
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It may seem passe to longtime Internet users, but online dating is growing in markets worldwide. Since new singles come along all the time, the online dating business won’t go away. In fact, there is a lot of room for growth for online dating and matchmaking web sites.“It’s a highly underpenetrated market,” said Thomas Enraght-Moony, chief executive of Match.com, in a February 2008 International Herald-Tribune article. “The US has 92 million single people, and only 3 million now pay for an online dating service, and the US is the most advanced market,” Mr. Enraght-Moony said. “In Japan, it’s one-tenth of that penetration.”Online dating sites often have a problem in common with most bars: Too many men, not enough women.MediaMark Research‘s “Survey of the American Consumer,” released in September 2007, found that men made up slightly more than half of online dating site users.For new online dating sites, the ratio is usually more lopsided.
The social network pool may be larger and free to use, but not everyone is there to swim.
As reported by www.emarketer.com
January is Best For Finding Online Love
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it comes to finding love, singles come back from the holidays with a New Year’s resolution to find the love of their life.
January is the busiest month for online dating services, with singles going online in record numbers to find soul mates or dates for Valentine’s Day.
There is a massive surge with singles re-evaluating their lives. They decide to not to marry their significant other and break up with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Or their dating life has been slow and now they want to jump start their love life.
With a projected 15-30% spike in the number of singles joining dating services in January, this is the time to join too. Hitwise, which tracks Internet traffic, found that more singles visited dating sites in January 2006 than in any other month that year, mostly due to New Year’s resolutions. Many dating sites start major advertising campaigns in January. The larger the database of singles looking, the more opportunities you have to find that special someone. This is a great time to check out a few dating sites. Join one or two. At less than $1.00 a day you have little to lose and may find the love of your life sooner than you think.
Five of the Top Dating Services to Try Today:
American Singles Free Trial and 50% off select subscriptions
Match Free Trial-Over 15 Million Singles
eHarmony for Marriage Minded Singles
Matchmaker Online personals for mature single adults “thirty plus” seeking long-term, committed relationships
JDate Jewish Singles Over 1 million members
Online Dating Renews Hope, But As Disappointing as Real Life
Posted by: | CommentsOnline dating renews women’s hope in love and sex, but can be just as disappointing as the real-life dating scene, according to new Canadian research.
Susan Frohlick, an anthropology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, says the women she surveyed gained a sense of empowerment from their online dating experiences.
But they still wanted the man to make the first move and expected him pick up the tab.
“Women are finding it as a useful tool to enter into the dating world, they find that it’s safe, they find that they can be a little more bold than they would in face-to-face relationships,” Frohlick said of her survey, which looks at how women over 30 view online dating.
“But, at the same time, they are experiencing frustration because it does seem that the Internet in many ways is just the same old bar scene.”
Complaints include a preponderance of men who are looking for much younger women, as well as men who misrepresent their looks, interests or marital status, or who show little interest in moving the relationship offline, she said.
“There’s not much of a difference between the virtual world and the real world,” said Linda, 33, a Toronto professional who has used an online dating site on and off, three or four times for a few months each time.
“It’s sad and equally as frustrating.”
Linda says she knows it can work out, noting that a friend met her husband after spending more than two years on different Web sites, but she admits she’s given up on the game.
“At least when you’re in the bar, you know what they look like,” she said, citing examples of meeting bald men whose profile pictures displayed a full head of hair.
“A lot more successful, attractive women are using these tools — I don’t think the men match up.”
Lori Miller, a singles and dating expert for www.lavalife.com in Toronto, says dating via the Web can mimic the bar scene. But it also gives women the chance to approach and meet dozens of men while knowing a little something about them beforehand.
“You’re literally thrown into the largest singles bar,” she said. “It is a lot of work, it is the luck of the draw just like being in that coffee shop and meeting the one.”
Frohlick’s small survey, to be completed in April, is questioning up to 25 Canadian women about their online dating habits. She hopes it will become a pilot for a far larger survey of women across North America. (Reuters News)