Dating Scams: Dating in the News
UK dating scams more common than believed: survey. CTV.ca
Earlier this year the Vancouver-based online dating site Plenty of Fish said it had been hacked and hand hundreds of user passwords and personal details stolen. Reports of violent criminals meeting targets through dating sites also occur on occasion. …
A cure for the lonely heart. Calgary Herald By Laura Kane, Vancouver Sun September 30, 2011
A screenshot taken from BeautifulPeople.com, a dating website restricted to only the best looking people online. In a world where a wealth of new options are just a mouse click away, is it any wonder …
Love on the Internet: Dating in the Age of the Profile Image. The Atlantic
Online dating is real. The barrier to entry is zero. The social media literacy of the average person is sufficient to make online dating comprehensible. Women and men understand that the risks of looking at profiles, and maybe even meeting one of those …
Bidisha’s thought for the day: internet dating. The Guardian
I have several friends who have dived like love-otters into the soiled waters of internet dating and emerged with a prize catch in their mouths … eventually. On the road to happiness one friend met a man who’d said he was 6ft 2in but turned out to be …
How to answer an online personal ad
… and avoid rejection.
The one thing you absolutely must understand about online personal ads is this:
No one posts an online personal ad to reject others.
Unlike meeting in bar, or another social place, the only fish in the place is you. He/she is reading YOUR email message, usually without another’s company and opinions to steer them one way or another about you.
There are no friends of his/her’s to get in the way of your simple, and hopefully eloquent, introduction!
Keep your email introduction short, with no silly comments that could be misunderstood, and you might just make it beyond email to a first date!
