Articles by: Brad
Step-by-Step Online Dating Profile Creation Guide
Published on February 27, 2010
Writing your online dating profile can be a tricky thing. You may want to build yours using other dating profile examples. This is understandable: many of us feel fine discussing ourselves in conversation but put us in front of a computer screen with a few text boxes to fill and we freeze up. This can […]
Keep readingTwitter To Replace Dating Services?
Published on February 26, 2010
This article asks the question: Can Twitter replace online dating sites? My first thought to this prior to reading the article was: weren’t people asking this same question about MySpace a few years ago? As I had mentioned back then, people also meet in grocery stores but that doesn’t mean grocery stores are going to […]
Keep readingWhich Super-Hero Should You Date?
Published on February 25, 2010
I’m not a big fan on relationship quizzes but the geek in me couldn’t pass up the super-hero relationship quiz at ComicVine.com. I matched 100% with Batgirl which I’m not so sure is a good thing based on the description! Actually, I think if my wife sees that description she might not like it either! […]
Keep readingFinding Dating Advice Through Tweets
Published on February 24, 2010
YourTango has a good article on Twitter Top 10: Who To Follow For Dating Advice. I thought this was a pretty good list and I guess more and more people will be looking to collect advice, dating or otherwise, using Twitter. Of course, you can always follow me too! Honestly, though, I’m not the best […]
Keep readingOnline Dating Gaining More Global Acceptance
Published on February 23, 2010
A recent article shows how online dating is gaining ever more acceptance. As someone who has been defending online dating for five years, I think this news is great: If you spent Valentine’s Day looking for love online then you are among the one in three Internet users who regard the web as a good […]
Keep readingDating Advice Round-Up: The Sleeping Edition
Published on February 22, 2010
How To Sleep Alone The Dating Papers offers some general advice on how to sleep alone. I’ll admit that when I was single I had a bad habit of staying up as late as possible…sleeping alone just isn’t fun. Still, you’ve got to do it sometime. This article offers some advice for this. Co-Sleeping This […]
Keep readingIs the Snow Finally Melting?
Published on February 21, 2010
Here in Pittsburgh it seems like we’ve been under several feet of snow for several months now. Not only that, I actually managed to be in Philadelphia last December when they were covered with the blizzard that happened then (little did we know it would only be the start of all the snow they’d be […]
Keep readingMashable: Users Vote Plenty of Fish Over Match.com
Published on February 21, 2010
Over at Mashable, there was a poll that asked users which was better: Match.com or Plenty of Fish. Their results showed that, at least among their readers, that Plenty of Fish is the better service. I find this rather disturbing: I look at (or read about) dating services almost every day and I have to […]
Keep readingTips for Dating More Than One Person at a Time
Published on February 20, 2010
As I lay out in my online dating guide, I think one approach that should be taken with online dating is to date as many people as as you can simultaneously. There are many reasons for this such as gaining confidence and just improving your odds by the number of people you are meeting. However, […]
Keep readingHow to Use VIP Emails at Match.com
Published on February 19, 2010
What is a VIP email message? It stands for “Very Interested Person” and this is a new type of message that Match.com is testing at the time of this writing (right now only some users are currently able to use). You should see a “Use Your VIP Email” button when you’re writing an email if […]
Keep readingDating News: Profile Lies, Age Issues and a Widowed Mom
Published on February 18, 2010
Little White Profile Lies This Washington Post article discusses some of the most common lies in dating profiles: height and weight. It also states that 8 out of 10 profiles have some type of lie in it. When I was dating online I had plenty of first dates but only one where the woman I […]
Keep readingWoman Creates Personal Dating Service for…Insurance
Published on February 17, 2010
A woman named Terri Carlson has created her own personal online dating service called Will Marry for Health Insurance which is exactly what it sounds like (here’s a photo of her website just in case she does find that husband and brings her site down). Terri has a medical condition that costs her $300 more […]
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