Online Dating

As discussed in our forum topic here, True.com has for a while now, been auto generating winks for their members. When signing up for True you can disable this feature but it is enabled by default. The selection box is located near the Terms of Service check box on True's sign up page.

Is this a good idea? Does it help get people interacting on the site or is it a ploy to just get non-paying members to sign up? I personally don't like it, and it definitely should not be enabled by default. This "feature" probably costs True more in bad press than it provides with new paying members.

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We are apparently spending more time in front of our pc's than we do watching TV these days! With this in mind, meeting new people has never been so easy! Online dating is growing rapidly and it is set to continue and will become the preferred most easy and reliable way of meeting suitable mates. With internet dating sites like Match.com, it is becoming increasingly acceptable and common place to meet strangers through the web.

The World Wide Web is changing all of our lives, our appetite for soaking up information with little effort and time consumption is extremely useful and almost addictive! We are quickly realizing and adapting to the wonderful world of the internet, which when it comes to dating we are also saving huge amounts of time and hassle by being able to pick from thousands of people online in our own area's!

At least with this type of dating you can scan all of your potential matches from the comfort of your home, you can see who has similar interests as you, their likes and dislikes, you can play the numbers game and access so many people like never ever before thought imaginable! Upping your odds of meeting your near perfect match for sure!

I believe online dating is definitely earning itself a better image these days, as a few years ago and even up until recently I've met resistance from people and slight disapproval of the internet dating scene. People especially couldn't understand why I of all people would need to use such a site! Thankfully it has become a much more acceptable way to meet your perfect match, it's a long and very different cry from dark drunken nights out in smokey bars and night clubs! Which is still the most popular place to try to meet people.

We will still enjoy the excitement of being out and meeting people in the flesh, that is integral to all of us and will remain so. It's just that if you are shy, a little older, just not meeting the right type of people, new back on the singles scene or just not the type of person who likes bars/clubs then the internet dating phenomenon is the best thing that could have possibly happened to you!

While online dating is still dominated by singles who are in their 20s or 30s the highest growing demographic in online dating is the Baby Boomer generation. These 50+ singles are more tech savvy, have more time and more money than previous generations so it is a perfect fit. Also, a lot of these senior singles children have left home which also frees up both time and money for them to do other things.

According to a Media Life article called "Finding silver in the silver singles set", over 53% of visitors to Yahoo! Personals where over the age of 45 in February, 2007. This high percentage of older singles also holds true for the other major dating sites like AmericanSingles.com, True and eHarmony. Their percentages ranged from the high 30s and 40s.

The full Media Life article is here.

Here is an interesting article on CNNMoney.com about the founder (Andrew Conru) of the FriendFinder Network of dating sites. It talks about his failures and successes including AdultFriendFinder, his biggest success which generates more than 60% of his total revenue (over $200 million). This site rivals the likes of Match.com and Yahoo! Personals in total number of members. Last year AFF had more than 35 million visitors and on average 75,000 new user registering each day (not paid members).

What is Fraudnet Technology you ask, it is a patent-pending solution to provide a safer online dating environment for Perfectmatch.com members. It has several goals, from increase detection of fraudulent credit cards to identify suspicious online behavior. These behaviors include such dating scams as people pretending to foster a relationship to lure singles into sending them money, providing credit card information and/or other personal data. Perfectmatch.com is always looking to protect it's members from dating online scams that have run rampent on other dating services.

This is definitely a step in the right direction for dating sites in general. While I haven't heard of any complaints against Perfectmatch.com regarding scam artists you can never be too careful online. Fraudnet and Perfectmatch.com have just inked this deal so it's not in use yet but we expect it to go live within 6 months.

For more information read Fraudnet's Press Release.