The Dating Dope

No, She’s Not Real: Fake Facebook Dating Ads

Odds are that you’ve been bombarded with dating site ads adorning the right side of your Facebook page with come-ons such as “Meet Her Tonight!!”. Of course, the pictures in all of these ads are of stunning girls — most often in casual poses or in a self-shot style attempting to lend them an aura [...]

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IAC Taking Over Yahoo Personals

IAC, operators of the Internet’s largest dating site Match.com, is taking over the management and administration of Yahoo’s dating section — formerly titled Yahoo Personals. The terms of the deal are rumored to entail a multi-year arrangement, but the economics of the transaction were not disclosed. This extends Match.com’s already huge reach within the online [...]

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For Every Pot There Is A Lid

We are a people of varied and diverse interests. Whereas mainstream dating sites seek to find you a good match out of a large universe of candidates, micro niche dating sites narrow down the search process by catering to singles with a dominant singular interest — or obsession. A good example would be TrekPassions.com — [...]

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