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Cooling down in California

My blog about what's up in L.A this winter and tips about online dating

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Technology - friend or foe?

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Reasons why you're still single

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Atheists get more dates in world of online dating?

A study by OkCupid, an online dating site in the US, has shown that atheists have more... more

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Online Dating Helps Pathetic Women Get Their Hopes Crushed More Efficiently

From The Onion.

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Why NYC is off the hook

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Does Flirting Online Equal Cheating?

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PC Hook up Online

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Bachelor One of 365: The Dating Service Entry For My AMAZING Brother! He is a CATCH!

(quoted from blogger--this is not ME--I am NOT oneof365) Ladies! Calling all... more

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Online Dating Dealbreakers

Here, some examples (both hilarious and bizarre) of online dating dealbreakers. For... more

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Online Booty Call

A new US site that is gaining popularity is "OnlineBootyCall.com" which confuses the... more

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Lindsay Lohan - Looking For Love ONLINE!

Lindsay Lohan pokes fun of herself in a mock EHarmony online dating profile created... more

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Online dating proves success for gorillas

Two gorillas who found love through an animal matchmaking site have welcomed the birth... more

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Online-dating websites prosper in the recession

NOT many industries are doing well in the recession. But along with discount retailers and pawnbrokers, online-dating sites such as eHarmony.com and OkCupid.com have seen business look up. There are several theories to explain why. It may be that people have more time to devote to their private lives as the economy slows; that uncertain times increase the desire for companionship; or that living alone is expensive, whereas couples can split many of their costs.

“People who have been single for years are suddenly focused on finding someone,” says Greg Waldorf, the boss of eHarmony, a wholesome marriage-oriented site with more than 20m paying subscribers. He favours the companionship-in-hard-times theory: “Going through difficult times with someone special is better than doing it alone.” In a recent survey carried out for his company, 25% of women said stress about the state of the economy made them more inclined to seek a long-term relationship. The company also noticed that the number of visits to its website was higher than average on days when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 100 points.

At OkCupid, which is aimed at a more casual, youthful crowd, there has been a jump in membership since the financial crisis set in (see chart), and an even bigger jump in how often members use the site. Back in September, users were sending 6,000 on-site instant messages a day, says Sam Yagan, OkCupid’s boss. Now that number is over 18,000. OkCupid has the advantage of being free, which has proved popular with people looking for partners for what Mr Yagan euphemistically calls “cheap entertainment”. After all, if you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, he says, “you can just play Scrabble instead of going out for the evening.”

But perhaps the boom is the result of neither a nesting instinct, nor a desire to save money. AshleyMadison.com, a very different type of dating site, is also doing well. Instead of arranging marriages, the subscription-based site arranges affairs—and never before have so many people been looking for a bit on the side. AshleyMadison’s boss, Noel Biderman, thinks his site, and others, are prospering for another reason: money problems. “The majority of relationship discord stems from economic troubles,” he says. Instead of fighting, married people are taking stock of their lives. “They want to do something that makes them feel better about themselves,” Mr Biderman says, “and $49 is a tiny expenditure for a life-altering affair.”NOT many industries are doing well in the recession. But along with discount retailers... more