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Safely Dating Multiple People on Match.com?
Published on September 21, 2013
Some of my most popular articles are in regards to women who are struggling to get the man that are dating exclusively to take their Match.com profile down. This is driven in part because Match shows the last time someone was active and will also show when they are currently online. For most of the […]
Keep readingThe Do’s and Don’ts of Online Dating
Published on November 12, 2012
With more and more singles uploading their profiles online, internet dating is rapidly becoming one of the easiest and most successful ways to find love. To help make you’re dating experience positive, it is important to invest a lot of time and thought into the information that you upload on to the web. Here are […]
Keep readingWhen Should I Do a Background Check with Online Dating?
Published on November 4, 2012
When I was dating online, I didn’t use background checks. I’m definitely not against them; I just personally never felt the need to use them. However, I do get questions on this from readers and it’s clear to me that many people wouldn’t be comfortable with the idea of dating online without background checks. Because […]
Keep readingAvoid Late Night Emails: Good Idea or Over-Thinking Things?
Published on July 30, 2012
It’s a situation many of us have been in: you decide to check your online dating account when heading to bed and before you know it, it’s 2AM and you’re considering sending an email to someone new. But would the timing of the email send the wrong message? Here’s how one reader puts things: Just […]
Keep reading10 Ways the Internet Has Changed the Way We Date
Published on July 9, 2012
The internet has deeply affected the lives of the majority of the planet since its conception twenty years ago. It is slowly and steadily changing the way we shop, the way we collect information, the way we communicate and generally how we conduct and organise our lives. Even dating has shifted online, with more and […]
Keep readingNiche Dating Services and Long-Distance Communication
Published on May 28, 2012
From time to time, I have conversations with people who find something odd when they use niche dating services: many of the people who contact them live very far away. Often, these people wonder if this is some type of scam or, if not that, they wonder if they’re doing something that’s attracting this long-distance […]
Keep readingSigns in Online Dating that He Might be Married
Published on March 12, 2012
How can you tell if a man you are talking to at an online dating site is married? A reader recently contacted me about an issue she was having with a guy she was dating. Our conversation reminded me that married men dating online isn’t a problem that all women are considering when looking at […]
Keep readingThe State of Dating 2012
Published on February 12, 2012
With Valentine’s Day arriving tomorrow, there will be a lot of statistics and other talk being thrown around the internet in regards to dating. For many of the dating services, this time represents a part of their peak season so a lot of attention is paid to online dating. For me, in the last week […]
Keep readingA Unique Approach to Match.com Instant Messaging
Published on January 16, 2012
Some time ago, a friend of mine shared with me an approach to have success using the Match.com Instant Messenger. He didn’t come up with the approach himself but stated that the guy he knew who was doing this had a lot of success with it. I have never used this approach but it sounded […]
Keep readingMore Funny Online Dating Videos from Dentyne
Published on November 28, 2011
Several months ago, I had posted the first two videos from Dentyne called The Single Life. I thought the videos were great and captured a lot of the real humor that happens behind-the-screens with online dating. Well, somehow I lost track of these but a reader contacted me and let me know that the final […]
Keep readingThe Single Life: A Funny Video on Online Dating
Published on June 22, 2011
Update: Additional episodes included below Dentyne (that’s right, the gum people) have created a new video series called The Single Life that is a funny look at online dating. In the first episode, included below, we are shown two singles creating their dating profiles and a lot of humor (and truth) are shown:
Keep readingMore First Email Examples for Online Dating
Published on June 20, 2011
I cover my approach writing first emails with online dating in my post First Contact Email Examples. In that article I also give some examples of how I would write some first emails based on several random dating profiles.
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