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Member Base

The site has good number of members which I found through searches I made on the site and it has all age groups ranging from 20’s to 60’s. Almost all of the members belong to U.S.

Longevity

I will give the site more time to decide on the effectiveness of this website. All you who are interested in knowing more will have to come back and watch this space.

Scores

Ranking Statistics

The site shows a good number of total visits i.e. 6,785 with a total of 11 referring sites out of which 9 sites are sending more traffic to this website. The site does not yet enjoy any web ranking.

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Conclusion

The look and feel of the website is not that attractive and some of you may find it dull in appearance. One thing about this site, is that it does not host any advertisements which some of you may like.

The registration is very simple and straightforward and there is no email verification mail required to use this site once registered. Also there are not that many steps in the registration and its simply a one step process asking only the basic information about you.

Login and customizing can be done very easily. Though you are free member you can browse any section in the site.

Photo uploading section is good as you can share and add many photos to your gallery without any  guideline or rules. Although, I need to warn the reader that it is at the discretion of the webmaster to remove your profile, so I would still watch out for what you upload.

Messaging is the only part that the free user can use to connect with other members of the site. It would have been nice if the site at least offered some limited message to send.

The member base is reasonably good and you could very well find your geek match here and there are all age groups on this site.

If you are really serious about finding your match but want some more features like social networking, then this site may not be your best choice.

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Article Subject: Food Lovers Passions Introduces Free Dating & Social Networking For Cooks, Bakers, Grillers & Eaters

Article Link: http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=press&id=96727

Article Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)

Website: foodloverspassions.com

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

Wow, there are so many of these dating sites popping up that fill a niche market and now we have a dating site that caters to food lovers! You will find some of our other reviews on these niche dating sites in our category Free Dating Site Reviews and Startup Online Dating Site.

Having visited this site, I suspect that its a ‘template’ driven site that is part of a bigger site, but I could be wrong. Watch our sections on the reviews to find out more.

There is nothing wrong about having different templates to a common database engine providing the user interest level fully considered and they are not steered into anything untowardly.

The site is aimed at people with the love of food and/or love of cooking and the site has been geared in the following food areas;

‘Baking’, ‘Grilling’, ‘Exchanging Recipes’, ‘Country Cooking’, or ‘Dessert’. Members can also search for others based on the specific types of food they enjoy, like ‘French’, ‘Italian’, ‘Mexican’, ‘Thai’ or ‘Sushi’. You can also specify if you are vegan or vegetarian.

online dating sites are now catering to food lovers

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Article Subject: Catchsocial.com Raises the Bar for Online Dating Using a Traditional Approach… With a Twist

Article Link: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Catchsocialcom-Raises-Bar-Online-Dating-Using-Traditional-Approach-With-Twist-1398072.htm

Article Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)

Website: catchsocial.com

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This is a PR release on CatchSocial.com which I reported a short while ago in the post Catchsocial.com to Launch Cupid Events…

Here they are publicizing the upcoming events taking place at Los Angeles and Chicago, details below:

Cupid Catch Event (Los Angeles)
Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm @ Callender’s Grill, 5773 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Cupid Catch Event (Chicago)
Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm @ Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, 1060 E. 47th St., Chicago, IL

The fact that they are able to host in two different cities means they have a great deal of organizational power and possibly good seed funding. Their concept is to invite people to bring someone of the opposite sex that they feel is a great ‘catch’, in this way the party has an equal ratio of guys and gals who would be compatible with each other.

catchsocial has a dating service that offers monthly events for singles

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Article Subject: Log off from online love

Article Link: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/02/17/signing

Article Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)

Website: none

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This post is by Dino Grandoni who is senior major at Columbia University studying economics-political science and shares his views in online dating.

Although Mr. Grandoni describes some of his experiences well from other college friends and associates who have tried online dating and failed, he is not looking at the bigger picture of online dating. I agree on his view that when on campus there is plenty of scope to meet like-minded individuals of the opposite sex and the requirements to look for dating outside of the campus is not really necessary.

This fact maybe true of college campus but the outside world is far removed from this and I have seen this happen to me when moving off campus to the company work place for the first time. Without appearing disrespectful to Mr. Grandoni but the working life has many challenges that young students are yet unaware of. For starters, you find you have significant bills to pay, taxes to go through, people you cannot relate to, work issues etc. and this takes a bit getting used to from the previous student life that we are accustomed to.

I would go as far to say that those people are the ones who have found online dating as a medium for connecting with other people. Take for example, the popularity of facebook, from the face of it (no pun intended) the site has droves of people who are coming to it by the numbers. I sometimes wander why they don’t put the same energy into their real social life. I have seen people who I know are perfectly content to ‘open up’ and put all kinds of information that goes on in their minds but when it comes to the real world they keep tight-lipped about it. This is the way online social sites are changing our behavior and no doubt online dating will have a similar look and feel….encouraging everyone to share our deepest thoughts which we wouldn’t necessarily do in public but hopefully someone, somewhere out there will.

facebook popularity could be that it brings out the inner being in ourselves

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