Friday’s Conversation Topics
I work hard (well not any recent time in memory) but when I did work I searched high and low for the best news stories of the past week that would provide for you great conversational topics and openers. I’m almost completely back to work, just a while longer to heal (it’s a long story) and i should be good to get to it.None the less, I offer you these top news stories to read and allow you to be prepared for a conversation with a new friend that will go beyond the usual exchange of a few niceties and then awkward silence. Let’s begin shall we:
- Mom Sells Baby for $15K Disney Trip: Cops - A new mom is in hot water after selling her newborn son for $15,000 so she could take her other two sons on a trip to Disney World, according to court documents. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal… Well, this would usually be classified as “weird news” but…
- ‘I’ve become so good at the dating game I’m addicted to it’: Meet the matchmaking expert who cannot hold down a boyfriend. Hayley Quinn, who has helped teach 100,000 men how to seduce women cannot find a boyfriend for a reason that would have scandalised high society Georgians: she is addicted to casual flings…
- Self-reported drunk driving is down. (AP) The decline may be due to the down economy: Other research suggests people are still drinking as heavily as in years past, so some may just be finding cheaper ways of imbibing than by going to bars, night clubs and restaurants…
- Hacker Group Anonymous Threatens to Attack Stock Exchange. The FBI is investigating threats purportedly from the hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous to bring down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday by hacking into its computer system. Members of the notorious hacker group appear to be threatening to bring the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to a dangerous new level, sounding a call to “declare war on the New York Stock Exchange” on Monday by “erasing” it from the Internet…
- Slutwalking into History. There seems to be a lot of slutwalking going on these days. According to news reports like this one, the protests that began in Toronto last month have gone global. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, the slutwalk protests aim both to reclaim the word “slut” from those who use it to try to shame women for being openly sexual creatures and to redirect that shame to where it belongs: aimed squarely at men who feel justified in sexually abusing women. The message is something like, “Fine, I’m a slut. Now, buzz off!” Fair enough, I’d say.
The Friday night conversation is alive and well, as long as you’re prepared. Have a great weekend!
Match.com March Marathon: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Tuesday - The Match.com March Marathon
It’s official, aLoveLinksPlus.com has designated March as the “Month to Try Harder” with your online dating adventure.
And we’re going to work thoughout the days of March to better use Match.com as our dating service example.
This is similar to a marathon (exception that March has 31 days and a marathon has 26 miles) and every day we’ll recommend another “leg” of the marathon for you to complete. We will be using Match.com as our example site, because if we all run the same course we’ll all be able to make it to the finish line at roughly the same time.
Free membership at Match.com is good for now but, later, as this marathon continues, we will recommend that you become a paid member… but that will still be optional. Heaven help me if my help isn’t helping you and I suggest you spend your hard earned money on a dating service that isn’t helping you. This won’t happen, I don’t bully people. A lot of what you’ll learn here will still be valuable insights into being a member of online dating services, so no need to despair, my friend.
Of course I’ll expect to know your reasons why you don’t want to be a premium member, so that I can either work to make changes to this “Match.com Marathon” or help you better decide why a full membership is what you really need to have to cross the finish line of dating this March.
But join for free today and use the free trial offered. You’ll need a credit card to join and get the free trial and cancel the free membership and to not get charged for the full membership by the time your expiration date nears, but I’m sure by then you’ll be having too much fun to want to cancel your full access membership to Match.com.
Click here for a 7 day free trial membership.
Leg #1 - You need to be a member of Match.com (click the link above) to get properly started with this online exercise. This is the first half half of the first step.
The other half is completing parts of our membership profile. You can see that once you’ve created a user account you’ll have a lot of areas to completely to finish for your dating profile. Not to worry, we’ll have a few days to look at every area of Match Personals during the Match.com March Marathon.
Even though other sections might be completed by you before we meet up with you tomorrow, not to worry, you can always edit if you’re uncomfortable with what you wrote.
For today I have a headline for online dating newbies (the first timers) to post as their very first Match.com headline: (the maximum is 140 characters and spaces for profile headlines.)
“Joining me for a coffee-date is a great idea. Your cafe or mine?”
Have a great day!
