Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Brad
In my guide, I stress the importance of meeting anyone you are talking to online sooner rather than later. I make this recommendation based on the fact that I found my impressions that were created from talking to someone through email or on the phone were often very (very) wrong. In these cases, within the first few minutes of the date I would realize my mistake. In my opinion, actually meeting the person you are talking quickly to is a [...]
Filed under: online dating news, online dating services
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Brad
If you are one of the many singles out there who has considered online dating but just can’t bring yourself to shell out the cash to give it a try the web site Plenty of Fish might just be what you were looking for. When I was dating online, there were a few free sites that I tried but to be honest there was next to no one using the services. As expected, if very few people are using a [...]
Filed under: online dating services
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Brad
While online dating is bringing more and more people dating success everyday, there is another reminder in the news that caution should be exercised. In this story, an Australian man flew to Mali to meet his “bride” only to be taken hostage. While this is horrible, it seems the man from the article isn’t the typical online dater (as the article states, he made a similar trip to Russia in the past also looking for a bride). In another case [...]
Filed under: online dating news
Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Brad
Once again I am using Google searches that send people to my site for article ideas. This time the search that sent someone my way was: “If a guy views your online profile often are they interested?”
The Short Answer
Wink at him and find out. It may not be called “winking” in the service you use but there will be some kind of method for contacting him without actually having to write an email.
The Long Answer
This is an interesting question because [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Brad
I briefly described what I thought a good email looks like in my online dating guide. Basically, my opinion is keep things short and simple while proving you actually read the profile. Today, I found a site called I Liked Your Profile that is a collection of weird, scary or just out-right funny emails people have received at their online dating accounts. There are many opinions to be found across the internet stating what your message should look like. While [...]
Filed under: internet dating
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Brad
Kate has been taking photography classes and has been looking for an outlet for her creativity. Recently, when a friend needed photos for his online dating profile, it was a perfect opportunity for her to get some shots of someone other than me and the dog. The “shoot” went well without any problems and our friend seemed to genuinely like the photos. A few weeks later, I mentioned that perhaps she could start a small business to offer this service [...]
Filed under: dating advice, dating profiles, internet dating, online dating services
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Brad
I am always hesitant to give women advice for online dating. Primarily, this is based on conversations I had with dates during my internet dating days. One great conversation starter was to simply talk about the online experience itself. These conversations revealed how very different a woman’s experiences were from mine, although many were similar to one another. While I would compare my experience to searching for that needle in the haystack, these women had experiences more comparable to trudging [...]
Filed under: dating advice, dating articles, dating links
Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Brad
This article is based off of a third incoming search “after first date didn’t call cancelled a meeting”. I had originally intended to included this with my previous post on phone calls but soon realized the discussion went well beyond that topic.
If you date online long enough chances are you are going to run into a situation where the person you were speaking to “drops off the face of the earth”. This scenario exists in all types of dating [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Brad
Today, I’ve had some traffic coming in from Google regarding phone calls. In each case, the person was interested in some aspect of phone conversations after the first date. Since the site is light on any phone conversation thought, I decided offer some advice for these searches based on my experiences.
Search: “Rules of dating phone call after first date” from East Hanover, NJ
First, there aren’t any hard and fast rules about anything in dating. I’ve had conversations that worked wonderfully [...]
Filed under: dating advice
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Brad
Last week, I was contacted with a request to review another online dating profile. Her profile was good although both Kate and I had a few comments. The profile has been shortened to only cover specific areas that advice was offered for:
The Profile
For fun I love going to the city – anything with lots of people and lots to see!I am looking for a guy that is used to a big family and would like one of his own! [...]
Filed under: dating advice, dating profiles
Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Brad
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
From time to time, articles are published on the best and worst cities to live in if you are single or, maybe more specifically, dating. This year, of the top forty cities measured, my city, Pittsburgh, came in near the very bottom of the list. This is actually an improvement – I know Pittsburgh was dead-last two years in a row a [...]
Filed under: dating articles, online dating news
Posted on October 11th, 2007 by Brad
Earlier this year, I was trying to determine if there was any use for a blog like this. If the web was saturated with every other person’s opinion on how online dating is best approached, I’d skip it. Specifically, I was searching for dating sites that provided a significant amount of advice. Most of the dating sites I found were fine but I disagreed with how some of them recommended a person find dating success. It’s not that I think [...]
Filed under: dating links
Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Brad
A friend asked that I review his dating profile to see if there was anything he could improve on. In the past when reviewing dating profiles, I’ve always included my wife since I like to have a woman’s opinion. As you’ll see, we don’t always agree! What follows is a trimmed down version of his profile followed by my comments and then Kate’s.
The Profile:
Movies, museums, skiing, whitewater rafting, skating, video/board games, mini-golf. I’d like to try camping sometime. Really, I [...]
Filed under: dating advice, dating profiles
Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Brad
I was recently contacted by someone from the Plucker project with interest in converting my guide to a format for Palm handhelds that could be viewed offline. I was not familiar with Plucker but saw no reason to decline the offer so now the guide is available for handhelds here. Hopefully someone out there using a handheld who would never have found the guide otherwise will find it useful!
Filed under: online dating guide, technology
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Brad
Perhaps the only downside to consistent success dating online (or any dating, really) is that all that courting starts to hit the wallet pretty hard. I eventually settled on meeting at coffee shops which was cheap but lacked creativity and fun. This article has some great ideas for cheap dates without making sacrifices on enjoyability. Several of these would not work very well in the early dates so use your head! In my opinion, the best first date options listed [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Brad
Here’s is a nice introduction to speed dating. I never tried speed dating but the article makes it sound worth a try. I also enjoyed the beginning of the article because it reminded me of those bad dates I had to suffer through…and he’s right: at least with speed dating when things are bad, you’ve only 5 more minutes to deal with.
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