Article Subject: Meeting meatheads in the Koots’ cootie-infested online dating world

Article Link: http://castlegarsource.com/news/general/meeting-meetheads-koots-cootie-infested-online-dating-world-9908

Article Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)

Website: none

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This a post by Allyson Kenning who wrote a post about her Valentines day’s experience with an online dating site and her own personal views of the subject. I personally do not agree with some of her statements made which seems to be more in frustration with herself and is typical of most people who blame the system rather than looking more closely at themselves. Normally, I am not very critical of people’s views but on this occasion I needed to be so, readers can find some usefulness in the material.

Her first gripe was that she had received two messages from men who clearly couldn’t spell and one who wanted to know what she was doing ‘tonight’. Naturally this kind of communication will not come across well to a lady of good standing or most people for that matter.

She also recollects some of her bad experiences with men who weren’t quite up to the profile and were late in meeting her and on top of that lied about their age.

At the end of her post she decides to put up a disclaimer of all the men she does NOT want in her life and eventually abandons the whole online dating scene together to spend more time with her cat and wait for Prince Charming.

My Brief:
She clearly needs to take a good look at her negative personality because that would be the very thing that is standing in the way of good and bad men.

She makes a big fuss about the spelling errors in men’s communication. Personally in a message some abbreviations are allowed but then again she needs to look at her own post. The title of her post are all in CAPs which to most people seems like you are shouting.

She claims that she will wait for Prince Charming, but I am sorry to say, you have been looking for Prince Charming all this time. Why? because you do not make the effort to seek out the other men, you are reactive to the situation. If you did a search on the dating site for men, I am pretty sure you will find men who are not only stellar in their English but probably intellectual enough to give you a run for your money. But then again, why would they want someone who is negative in their outlook of life?

My conclusion, please perk yourself up and look at the real world which is your own self and then decide how you can improve and not the world changing for you. I find this piece of information helps me in my daily life a great deal.

improving ones personality is the first objective in improving outlook

Tags: Allyson Kenning, dating advice, Online Dating Tips, personality development

Article Subject: Forget the flowers, chocolates, send an ‘I lv U’ text instead?

Article Link: http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2011/feb/220211-Men-women-survey-online-dating-sex.htm

Article Rating: 2.8 (out of 5)

Website: none

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

According to this post texting and the social networks have changed our behavior and understanding of sex, relationships and dating.

The poll conducted on 1,200 men and women revealed the following;

• 75% percent men admitted that they constantly checked an ex-lovers Facebook page
• 5% said that the compulsion of social networking site was so great that they would break off sex to see who was responding
• 43% men and 27% women admitted to being dumped via sms
• 65% said they have been asked out by a text and 49% through facebook

It would seem that in this digital age the tools available for dating has become widespread and it’s not surprising that many dates emanate from texting as well as dates ending through texting. Despite these tools, we all connect ‘humanistically’ with each other and how these devices will alter our way of thinking is worthy of further investigation.

texting can be addictive and can be used wisely or destructively in relationships

Tags: love and texting, texting for dating, texting for dumping

Article Subject: eHarmony launches $7m media pitch

Article Link: http://www.adnews.com.au/news/eharmony-launches-7m-media-pitch

Article Rating: 2.8 (out of 5)

Website: eharmony.com.au, match.com.au, lavalife.com.au and spiceoflife.com.au

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

There is hot competition brewing up in Down Under where eharmony is launching a $7m media blitz and doing catching up with the likes of match, lavalife and spiceoflife.

The largest subscription based dating site in Australia is spiceoflife.com.au which is owned by Fairfax Media. Eharmony brands itself as a “relationship” site and claims to be a matchmaker of 271 marriages per day in the US alone. Naturally, from the figures we have seen in the increase in dating site revenue last year, there is going to be a more aggressive push for subscribers and of course much competition.

Expect to see much more adverts appearing on TV from these companies, although I would really like to see more watchable commercials similar to the Geico or Progressive adverts.

dating in down under is hotting up with competition

Tags: australian dating market, dating down under, subscriber dating sites, top dating sites

Article Subject: Families get the 411 on sexting risk

Article Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-22-sexting22_ST_N.htm

Article Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

Although this post is not related to online dating as such, I feel it is important in that it makes us more aware of some of the dangers today due to the widespread access of the internet that is available today. The internet has been around for quite a while but only in the last few years that the accessibility of the internet through the smart phones have opened many doors to the online social scene.

Whereas access to the internet could be controlled by parents a few years back when the PC was more ubiquitous, however, today the same technology now lies on the palm of our hand and is available to anyone. It is much more difficult to control the behavior of children and their access to the net. Inevitably, the online ’social’ scene draws millions of children online and they can engage in communication with pretty much anyone. With the tools and applications available for these devices, it allow as a greater degree of communication using all types of media such as voice, photos and video.

Unfortunately, the post reported here shows how easy it is for a young girl who got caught up with an online predator and was almost coerced into sex. Although as adults we can often use our own experience and good judgement to see through the charade but young children are more susceptible and they need to educated.

smart phones today makes accessibility of the internet available to everyone today

Tags: dating predators, online dating issues, technology and dating

Article Subject: Online Dating and Race - YouTube

Article Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfc8bf5lsaE

Article Rating: 3.5 (out of 5)

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This youtube video has come about through a recent study in online dating where it was found that most whites are likely to stay within their domain and contact other whites as opposed to blacks who would contact either race. I did a recent review of this in my post “In online dating, blacks more open to romancing whites than vice versa - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato“.

The video is a series of brief interviews with students from Berkeley University on their opinion of interracial dating. I suspected that the reasons for the differences in the selection process is clearly down to cultural indifferences, upbringing and personal tastes and not ‘racism’. Check it out and see what you think.

Tags: interracial dating, whites dating blacks, youtube video dating