HowAboutWe.com - Is It Good Enough For You?
I recently reviewed the dating service “HowAboutWe.com” and I have to say that I am a little impressed with this fairly new dating service (about 18 months old) but I have some very deep reservations as well. Let’s dig in:
WHAT THEY SAY: Now online dating is all about getting offline. Just say “How about we…” and post the dates you want to go on.
WHAT I FOUND: I can’t really be certain if HowAboutWe.com is just another fad in the online dating world or if they really have something unique to bring to the dating experience.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND: Easy to join, a few minutes worth of “must answer” questions before you get a good look. Low membership costs but without paying you’ll never be certain what you’re getting here. Straight, same sex and even something for couples (!?) available.
Online Personal Ad Headline of the Day: Happy Halloween!
Are you wearing something pretty? Or pretty scary?
Halloween is like New Year’s Eve, a time to mark the passing of fears instead of time, to watch as others participate in the celebration of moving forward without that fear.
Consider your fears and what changes can be made in the future to combat and/or defeat them. Confidence is a wonderful feeling and is the direct opposite of fear.
For your dating profile headline today try posting this:
“I might not have all the answers but I hope I have the ones that matter to you.”
Have a trick or treat kind of day!
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Dating in the News
Olivia Wilde says she finds modern dating difficult
Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter
After breaking off a long-term relationship, it is always hard to jump back into the dating game. And that’s exactly how Cowboys & Aliens star Olivia Wilde feels after splitting with her husband of seven years. …
How dating evolved through the years
The Independent
By Amy Loudon Whether matchmaking soul mates, facilitating marriages or simply starting two strangers off on the right path, online dating is jaw-droppingly brilliant in that it taps into something people do every day - meet other people speculatively …
Attitudes about dating changing in this dour economy
San Jose Mercury News
Online dating is still going strong, but expectations are changing — men and women are relaxing their standards on a potential mate’s job status. Joel Koosed, director of the Bay Area-based The Meeting Game Salon, which hosts evenings of conversation …
Survey: Phoenix Best in Country for Dating Scene
MyFox Phoenix
Rent.com calls our dating scene here in the valley both “exhilarating and posh.” Seattle came in second, Austin, Texas third, followed by Denver, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles and Vegas, and New York and San Jose round out the list.
About Town: Online Dating
The New Age Online
As a single girl on the dating scene, going out and meeting people or the right person is rather daunting. You plan a night out with your girlfriends, and usually it’s not a last-minute decision. The date is decided, the restaurant and the club for a …
The Where And When Of Post-Divorce Dating
Huffington Post (blog)
When you get divorced, the world of dating can be daunting and a bit scary. You haven’t fished in that pond for years and you now have children that you also have to think about. There are some universal questions that come up when dating as a …
7 Bad Dating Tips I Learned from My Xbox 360
Kotaku
Now I’m passing these pointers of passion, all delivered in actual Xbox 360 dating-advice video games, on to you. Catch her off guard with your opening line. A man walks into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone. …
Is Internet Dating Destroying Love?
AlterNet
Dating websites distort the very core of interpersonal relations and turn love into a consumer product. Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The internet is changing the way society communicates, processes information and …
A New Twist On International Dating
WebWire (press release)
While a lot of men dream of being with an exotic beauty, the task of finding foreign brides is nothing short of cumbersome given the hundreds of sites dedicated to international dating. Matters are further compounded by the fact that not every online …
Online Dating: SingleEastCobb.com
Patch.com
Surprising facts about this dating website that is advertised by roadside signs across Northeast and East Cobb. By Susan Becker Leisha Murphy and her twin sister Lisa Lyngos. SingleAtlanta Facebook If you’ve driven through Northeast Cobb you’ve likely …
A Minor Flaw
Slate Magazine
I’m dating a man who was charged with soliciting a teen for sex; I wish I’d never discovered this! By Emily YoffePosted Thursday, July 28, 2011, at 7:10 AM ET Got a burning question for Prudie? She’ll be online at Washingtonpost.com to chat with …
Real Dating: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Do you know the real secret to using online dating services to actually get dates?
I’d be surprised if you answered yes because most people don’t know the right answer. Hell, they don’t even know it was a question at all.
The answer I’m going to give you is this: Show your best side.
The answer isn’t that much of a surprise but it is a secret because most people don’t even consider the possibility that showing their best side, and not the side that they expect someone will want to see, will actually be the way to get dates using an online dating service.
If you’re shopping does the freshest piece of meat fetch the highest price? Of course it does.
It’s packaging, great display space and an understanding that what is being offered is the real deal.
(Take a great picture, use the best online dating services and make only honest promises to the people you chat up.)
So be the real deal in your online profile and the messages you send to the people that contact you and those that you contact first.
Reality — it’s something we all have to deal with sooner or later so you might as well start on the sooner side of life.
For your headline today try this:
“The only honest and true person you’ll browse through today.”
Have a great day!
An Excellent Adventure: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Online dating offers you instant ways of connecting with many people.
You have your own space to create a profile and tell people about all the positives in your life and yourself personally.
Sounds like the beginning of an excellent adventure, and it is!
Go forward and break out of your online hiding place and chat it up with people that you are interested in possibly meeting and allow others to contact you so they can share their interest in you.
To get started today, try these online dating services:
- http://www.d8me.net
- http://www.xlonely.com
- http://doyoudate.me
And the icing on the cake is to post a great headline to catch people’s attention as they scan through the search results, so use this one:
“You can only find the one that will love you only if you try.”
Have a great day!
Connecting: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
MondayIf I could tell you one thing that would make a difference in your dating life what would it be?
Would I tell you that there are plenty of fish in the sea and sometime soon you’ll hook a keeper?
Maybe I’d say that if you spent more on your wardrobe than your fast food meals you’d be more attactive; or maybe that having a shower once a week ins’t enough.
The reality is that there is no one solution, just as there is no one person that can have the answer.
I can tell you that I have plenty of answers for plenty of questions, answers to just about every dating situation you’d find yourself in. And if your situation is that unique you can email me and I’ll offer help directly to you.
I like to help you get creative with your personal ad profile headline because it’s tough to stand out in a list of profiles and if you can manage to get that first look from someone you have just bettered your odds of finding love online.
Today, let’s try this headline on your profile:
“I missed you on that other dating site so let’s connect here.”
Have a great day!
Online Dating: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
SundayAnother glorious day, despite the weather forecast, and a million things to not do so I, and you, can have a relaxing day.
Put away the vacuum and bathroom cleaners. Leave the dishes and the dust bunnies to be dealt with another day.
Today is for relaxing and, of course, online dating.
I want you to feel comfortable as you login and enter your online dating adventure. Today is for a quick, but thoughtful, edit of your profile. Maybe add a couple more recent photos of yourself (activity photos are the best just make sure you’re the only person in the pictures).
As you think of new things to write about yourself, I have a question that you can answer in your profile: Which is your favorite season of the year ad why?
As we explore ourselves to find attractive qualities to put into our profile it’s important to remember you need to include the things about yourself that you want to have in common with someone. Concentrate on those things that are joyful and can easily be shared.
If you don’t have a dating service to call your own I invite you to join Perfectmatch.com with an offer that’s easy to swallow: Perfectmatch.com New 3-day Free Trial.
Perfectmatch.com is a dating service of very high quality and does require members to be subscribe to the service to contact others but this free trial will get you started with all features and contact is allowed for the three days.
My suggestion for your personal ad headline to day is:
“I put off my laundry to look for you here.”
Have a great day!
CNN: Don’t be offended by online-dating rejection
This excerpt is from an article on CNN.com. Click the link at the end to read the complete article.
Online dating seems like the pinnacle of modernity, an online meat market where glassy-eyed humans browse possible suitors, sorted for ease of shopping by size, shape and moral fabric.
So advanced does it appear, so streamlined and slick-interfaced and “Jetsons”-esque, that it’s easy to overlook a very basic truth: Online dating is the freaking savanna. Circa 2 million years ago. As in, early humans tearing around the open grasslands without much regard for courtship courtesy.
When we type in our logins and go surfing for love, out come all our animalistic instincts: We refuse to give a second look to those who don’t meet our physical requirements, rudely ignore those we don’t find worthy and generally let our ids run wild.
Finish reading the article about online dating and rejection here.
Valentine’s Day: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Be mine and no others, love me still, no matter my faults.
I do not agree with the “love anarchists” that believe Valentine’s Day is a conspiracy of the flower sellers, greeting card companies and candy makers.
No, I believe that Valentine’s Day (in the northern hemisphere) is a day of apology between the sexes. After a few months of early nightfall and cold weather, Valentine’s Day came about to rekindle love and affection between a man and a woman. An apology of sorts for bad behavior as caused by being resricted to the home through a dark and cold winter.
That’s what I believe.
Now, whether you also believe what I believe, or you are unconvinced, doesn’t matter. What does matter is your own social circumstances and how your social position (from single and not dating to single and dating) can chnage with your adventure into online dating.
Because online dating is an adventure and because you should be finding people to connect with outside of your usual contacts of friends, co-workers and business associates.
I’m not going to go into the whole “how to write your online dating profile” or which of the “top ten dating services” you should join. That’s been handled on different pages and posts.
I am going to offer to you my suggestion of a headline for your dating profile today, if you’re interested (and I have a feeling you are) so here goes:
“We are both here for the same thing, I hope.”
Have a great Valentine’s Day.
Black Friday: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Friday
I would say let the madness begin but for many holiday shoppers they’ve been in line for hours and shopped already and are now back at home, cosily in bed.
Yes, Black Friday has taken it’s first victims.
Now, whether you are at home, at work planning a later shopping trip to forage through the leftovers, I have one word of caution for you: sometimes the deals aren’t that good, so knoiw what you’re buying. Or just wait for the storm to pass and shop at home, online, on Cyber Monday.
Your choice.
Online dating does not have a sale, it’s the same people in different laces, so you have to have your “warrior helmut of love” on and storm the walls of several dating services from not to New Year’s Eve so youeither have a date or you’ve had a few dates and are preparing to ask someone out on another date for New Year’s Eve. That’s our goal now.
To help you on this task I offer this headline for you to use today:
“You like? Let’s chat and maybe we’ll date!”
Have a great day!
Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Anywhere and anything...
If you could suspend reality and have anything happen, anything at all, what would you become?
- The world’s biggest billionaire?
- The world’s sexiest person?
- The world’s biggest music artist?
- The best known actor?
The choices really are limitless but there can be only one choice? (No, you can’t choose to have extra choices!)
I know I’d choose to be the best romantic. Why? Because if you have romance in your life you will get everything else you need and you don’t even have to be deceptive about wanting those other things either.
I hope that the answer satisfies you and gives you pause for any other answer. Life is full of surprises, eh?
I’m surprised too…
Surprises aren’t always the best thing to do when you’re meeting people but at the same time a little bit of difference, of challenge, keeps the events in your life fresh.
No one likes a stale life, right?
Let’s work on adding some romance, and a bit of a surprise, into your life and the next great person you meet, their life, too.
Start with a great headline that will get their attention and start them on the road to attraction for you. Post this for your online dating headline today:
“Great looks and personality too!”
Have a great day!
One thing I like about… eharmony.com
One thing I like about… eharmony.com is that they are still in the top ten of online dating services, almost from the first day when they came online 10 years ago.
eharmony.com has managed quite a few storms, not the least being called a religious fanatical dating service catering and dishing up a modified version of christian morals, then bending (almost breaking) under threat of lawsuit for excluding gay and lesbian members in the USA from the dating service.
But with more than 550 marriages daily between members, I can say with certainty that a l.ot ofpeople begand and ended their search for that someone special with eharmony.com.
The only question is, will you be next?
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