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Try Online Dating – Everyone is Doing it!

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:42:47 +0000

A article posted on News3 says everyone more and more people are trying online dating. While this isn’t exactly newsworthy information, what is interesting is the stats they have come up with.

Men look at the picture and click, women tend to both look at the picture and the profile. It also goes on to say neither sexes like profile names that flaunt wealth – so names like “lovemyporsche” would not be a good name. Women over 65 tend to be pickier than younger women, and both men and women lie about their weight.

My favorite statistic however is thoat those who are much less attractive sell their personality more on their profile. How true is that one!

Of course as the article points out, if you can weed through all the exaggerations, online dating isn’t that bad and you might just find what you are looking for.

Is your Dating Profile Racist?

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:44:33 +0000

The question has been tossed around for a while now and a topic of conversation that piques my curiosity. When you choose your preferences in your profile, are you being ‘racist’ in your choices. After all if you only want to date a woman that is over six feet tall – what would you be missing in choosing that and does it really mean you are being racist, or just choosing what you prefer. Foley wrote a good article on examiner.com that makes one think of what does choosing your profile mean about you.

The Real You Profile Picture

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:43:30 +0000

How many of us look at the profile picture and don’t go any further. As easy as it is to say we don’t judge a book by it’s cover – the truth is we do, or advertising wouldn’t be the b’zillion dollar industy that it is. That doesn’t mean that putting up a profile picture that isn’t what you really look like is a good idea at all. If anything it wastes your time and the time of whoever is responding to your profile.

So what is the solution? OmniDate is trying to bridge that gap by creating avatars (profile pictures) that are based on what you look like. The added bonus is that you can dress them up or down depending on what you want to look like. With everything else on the web becoming so interactive it seems like a great direction to go in. It will be interesting to see how “real” this concept of online dating can become.

Dating Algorithms – Find your number.

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:44:56 +0000

There are over 22 million unique visitors every month going to a variety of online dating sites. If you think about it on a grandiose scale that is a lot of possible matches to look through. Thankfully the sites filter your choices down to which ones can be suitable to what your looking for. An article posted on Computerworld.com talks about “Joe”. Joe found 500 people who appeared to fit his criteria. It still amazes me easy it is to find people online. All we are looking for is one – pretty high odds of finding someone. Joe did – he narrowed down his match until he ended up with the one he wanted.

Good online dating sites build their sites on a combination of technology, most times we don’t even realize it when we go to these sites. Some good points that are brought up in this article:

Offer excellent response times. People want instant gratification, so the sites try to give users at least some matches as soon as they’ve created an account and completed their profiles.

Convert at least 10% of visitors who register into paying customers — preferably more.

Deliver an acceptable range of probable matches and offer a variety of ways to pursue those prospects, including high-tech developments from video chat to photo-realistic avatars.

Keep the quality of the prospect pool high by weeding out inactive and misbehaving users and by blocking the 10% or more of new accounts every day that are estimated to be scammers, con artists, criminals, sexual predators and other undesirables that can overwhelm a site and drive away paying customers.

Most of this information isn’t easy to find out online – if you have a doubt get hold of the online dating site and ask. Even if you are looking to date someone on the wilder side, a good site will remove anyone from their site may put another member in danger. Just because a dating site is online it does not mean they have no offline presence. Find out what you need to know – and then start playing with your numbers!