Articles by: Brad
Is Online Dating Worth It?
Published on January 3, 2008
Recently I started offering dating advice through Yahoo! Answers. If you’re not familiar with Yahoo! Answers, it is a community where you earn points by answering questions and spend points to ask questions. The questions can be anything at all. There are plenty of people asking online dating questions so I check it out every […]
Keep readingWhen Dates Go Bad: The Self-Righteous Dater
Published on December 29, 2007
Have you ever been on a first date where from the very beginning your date was rude or angry? I’ve experienced this type of date once when using internet dating sites and have heard several horror stories from friends who have also run into this. From what I have seen, it seems to happen most […]
Keep readingOnline Dating What?
Published on December 20, 2007
I’ve been receiving a healthy amount of traffic to my blog posts lately. Surprisingly, very little of that traffic ends up viewing my online dating guide. I had anticipated that people would find my site through the individual posts but end up reading the dating guide. I looked into the statistics to try to understand […]
Keep readingWhen Dates Go Bad: The Withdrawn Dater
Published on December 18, 2007
I was on a date once and for the first fifteen minutes things were going fine. Mid-date, though, something changed and I could actually feel the woman across from me withdrawing from our conversations. Soon, every question I asked was met with a single word answer and she was making no attempts to start any […]
Keep readingFirst Email Length: Shorter is Better
Published on December 12, 2007
In my online dating guide, I discussed how first contact should be made. To quickly sum it up: keep the email brief with some type of proof you read the profile. I’ve covered those points several times in the past so why bring them up again? Primarily because I’ve always been providing second-hand information (that […]
Keep readingCrass Men Hurt Everyone in Online Dating
Published on December 8, 2007
crass /kras/ – without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid I read an article today that got me worked up regarding what some men see as reasonable communication with women. The author, Barbara/Layla, describes a bad online date which isn’t really the problem (we all have those). The problem begins when the man emailed […]
Keep readingFunny Dating Profiles
Published on December 3, 2007
First a warning: this article does not tell you how to create a funny dating profile. It explains why trying too hard to create a funny profile is a bad idea. There are many things that should be a part of your profile (which I cover in my online dating guide) but being funny, especially […]
Keep readingImprove Profile Views with your Heading
Published on November 30, 2007
We all have had to plug in some title on our dating profiles and everyone knows it is more difficult than it looks. I never held a bland profile heading against someone because I went through the same impossible task of summing myself up in one sentence. While I don’t see the profile heading as […]
Keep readingThe View from the Other Side
Published on November 27, 2007
Near the end of my online dating, I discovered that sharing my dating experiences with my dates really opened the discussion up. Not only that, these candid conversations also opened my eyes to the absolute hassle women have to go through and gave me a glimpse of how they felt about online dating in general. […]
Keep readingOnline Dating and MySpace, Take Two
Published on November 21, 2007
Today, I found an interesting article about online dating and MySpace. As I have mentioned, I think MySpace is not the best place to try and begin a serious relationship. However, the article does make a few points I had not thought of: The community of MySpace or Facebook creates a little more security in […]
Keep readingGreat Source for Online Dating Advice
Published on November 17, 2007
Since I started this site a few months ago, I’ve been actively looking for great resources that I could share here. Unfortunately, almost everything I have found online has fallen into one of three categories: Overly general advice that feels extremely polished and impersonal. For example, the type of advice I would expect to see […]
Keep readingUsing Online Dating Advice Intelligently
Published on November 16, 2007
In my last post, I talked briefly about background checks as well as the Safer Online Dating Alliance (SODA). As I mentioned there, I feel that the rules SODA lays out for safer dating are excellent. However, I would like to take a few moments to discuss just a few of the rules in an […]
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