Life, Love and Online Dating

Reportedly,  SugarRomance.org has a great new offering in the online dating arena–the personal marketing consultant to help pitch you to other members online moderator to help “keep it real”.  It’s a fascinating concept, really, having a stranger step in and tell you how best to present yourself (or even make the presentation on your behalf) [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that, despite my misgivings, I’d registered for an online dating service last month.  I was a bit dismayed by many of the messages I received, but there was one in particular that struck me immediately and has become a sort of shorthand for all of the inappropriate comments strange [...]

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Mike, I think this whole “too many choices” thing takes us right back to the issue of how we look at other people.  You’ve made the argument in favor of weeding people out in advance, but I think that’s the very same mentality that leads people to think of one another as “choices” rather than [...]

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That crossing out rules thing Mike mentioned in his last post is exactly what I was talking about earlier this week when I suggested that maybe a lot of us had a tendency to give new relationships more of a chance than they deserved.  The effort to make it work moves into the foreground, stealthily [...]

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Brat.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with meeting for coffee, and you know it. I’m talking about the significant number of men (maybe women do this, too–I never see their profiles, so I don’t know) who explicitly announce that they want to meet for coffee so as not to waste their time on someone [...]

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It seems to me that if I were truly “jaded” I would have a more pessimistic outlook of online dating. I wouldn’t be so quick to point out that wanting to meet for a cup of coffee is superficial and shallow. Actually, it sounds like a good approach to me (No, that’s not [...]

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Mike, you sound so jaded.  It makes me kind of sad.  I begin to fear that you may be one of those people who notes on his online dating profile (nope, I’ve never peeked) that he’d like to meet for a quick cup of coffee first so that you can avoid “wasting each other’s time” [...]

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Not surprisingly, I can’t agree with Tiffany on her downside to online dating.  I think that, considering the intent, it is better to know upfront that someone is single and looking.  If your goal is to find someone who is a dating prospect you will be more focused to ask the questions and talk about [...]

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I suppose there are multiple downsides (even for those who are fans of online dating), but what strikes me about this one is that the very thing Mike identified earlier today as “the advantage” seems like the biggest drawback to me. I’m sure he’ll have more to say on the subject (you may already [...]

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