The dating rituals of yesteryear have all but disappeared as a new style and attitude of the single socializer has evolved into a mode more suitable for this day and age. Though some things have changed rather drastically, some things have not. Everyone wants a chance to meet that possible significant other or at least date an appropriate someone a few times.
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Earlier this week the CEO of eHarmony resigned for uncited reasons. At first I was surprised because I thought this was who the article was talking about:
Not the guy resigning…
Turns out that while Dr. Neil Clark Warren (pictured above) was the founder of eHarmony, he is not the CEO. The CEO was Gregory Waldorf, one of the founding investors.
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On December 30, 2010, Match.com had a a federal lawsuit filed against it that alleges that the majority of profiles belong to scammers or are inactive members. Check this article out for the details. From the suit itself:
While Match purports to have “millions” of active subscribers, well over half of the profiles on its site belong to inactive members who have cancelled their membership or allowed their subscriptions to lapse and/or are fake and fraudulent profiles posted by scammers and [...]
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Parship.co.uk has put together a graphic that shows some interesting statistics on singles in the UK. You can see the full graphic here.
There are a lot of interesting things in the graphic but the thing that stands out to me the most is that 75% of singles in the UK haven’t had any type of relationship in the last 18 months. I don’t personally have any statistics for the U.S., but that sounds above normal to me. Perhaps singles in [...]
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For the second time, Match has released a LoveGeist report that studies and tracks how people view love and relationships, in particular for those in the UK and Ireland. Even though the study is regional the results can be interesting to anyone and I am sure some of the findings cross borders.
This year’s study was based on working with over 150,000 people and the results are released in a full report as well as in a very interesting interactive map. [...]
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Forbes discusses which cities are the best for singles dating online. These conclusions were actually compiled by OKCupid which looked at all of their users to determine which cities had the most active singles.
Boston was declared the best – the article discusses that Boston’s smaller size (relatively speaking) and high population as giving its singles the advantage when dating online. Other cities were cited for, such as San Francisco, were believed to have an advantage because [...]
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Gone are the days when internet dating sites were for the desperate and the deranged. They used to have a pretty bad reputation with plenty of horror stories attached: people not being who they said they were, people going missing, identity theft – we’ve heard them all. But something has happened over the last five or so years that has made online dating not only acceptable but an intrinsic part of people’s lives.
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It has been recently announced that Match.com will become the official online dating site for Yahoo!. As a part of this change, Yahoo! Personals will be offering its current members the opportunity to move to a new co-branded dating service that will be called “Match.com on Yahoo!”.
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eHarmony has recently added a new feature to its online dating service. This feature further enhances your profile when other singles view it by helping provide (not surprisingly) something for the two of you to talk about.
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Do you like statistics? Do you date online? Well then you’ll love this infographic. Some of the statistics here are very interesting, some are encouraging and others are just plain scary.
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Here’s an interesting article over at The Hill that discusses how the recession has affected online dating. There are many interesting facts in this article such as Match.com has 56% male members and that when the economy suffers a blow, such as a day where the stock market is down, activity on dating sites goes up. From the article:
A December 2008 national study conducted by eHarmony and Opinion Research Corp. found that, of more than 1,000 adults polled, 19 percent [...]
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In the U.S., Maryland is considering changing the law on how marriage brokering web sites (think “Russian brides”) would work. The idea is that there would be much more controls placed around these sites that could in some way be debilitating to them. Recently I was reading a post that claimed that Facebook was saved by one line of text in this bill (HB65).
Facebook (and services like it) are explicitly excluded as the article correctly points out. However, the [...]
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