The Dating Dope

Leonardo and Gordon

Hi, it’s Corey here On my last post I described signing up at eHarmony and filling out their ridiculously long questionnaire and completing my profile. I was contacted by quite a few of my matches, but only responded to two which had stood out. I decided to call the first one on here (using real [...]

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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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