Improve Profile Views with your Heading

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 […]



The View from the Other Side

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. […]



Online Dating and MySpace, Take Two

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 regards […]



Great Source for Online Dating Advice

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 in […]



Using Online Dating Advice Intelligently

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 […]



Ideas for Safer Online Dating

A reader contacted me this week with some thoughts on my recent article regarding risks with online dating:
Your post on October 29th titled the Risk of Trusting was a great reminder of how important it is to be cautious. I appreciated your willingness to point out that there is plenty of room for failure and […]



Online Dating Services with a Different Approach

Recently I was reading a TechCrunch article about the online dating services that are taking a different approach. There were two dating sites listed in the article that I was familiar with: Engage.com and GreatBoyFriends.com.
I had read about Engage.com a few weeks ago and was interested by the idea. The service provides what might be […]



Online Dating and MySpace

Are people really having success finding love with MySpace? I’m not talking about a purely physical relationships. Based photos I’ve seen, the site is obviously a self-advertising platform for some people. What I am talking about is actual success finding good relationships. I find myself asking this because many sites I have found in my […]



Five Online Daters to Avoid

I really loved this article on online daters to avoid. I only wish I would have read it before I had started online dating. Give this a read: I really believe it can help people avoid making some mistakes. I just cannot say enough good things about this article because I experienced so much of […]



Is [Blank] a Good Topic for a First Date Conversations?

A few searches have come to the site questioning whether certain topics are good or not for a first date conversation. The most recent one that comes to mind is “Is profession a good topic for first dates?” In general, I think most topics are fine for first date conversations. Even topics such as politics […]