Online Dating Tips for Men and Women: Dating Online Today
By Matched | August 22, 2010
Online dating is one of the the safest and most convenient ways to meet single men or women. But because of the stigma that online chat rooms sometimes suffer from, singles, especially single women, can still feel apprehensive about joining an online dating site.
The following are some basic, common sense safety tips to keep in mind when dating online. Follow these tips, and you should be perfectly fine and be able to enjoy all the benefits online dating has to offer.
Take the following safety precautions, and you’ll make absolutely sure that you are not doing anything that could be dangerous.
Do not, under any circumstance reveal any personally identifiable information in your online dating profile, in your personal ads, or in your private e-mails to singles.
Such information includes your real name, specifics about where you live (“I live in London” is ok, though) or any other info that could be used maliciously or simply without your consent.
Use only the communications tools provided by your dating service. They now offer private e-mail, chat, and even instant messaging. You should not invite singles to e-mail you at your regular address, at least until you get to know them better. Use your judgement here.
When you e-mail singles in private, you may want to consider using an anonymous e-mail account at a free site such as Hotmail or Yahoo when you begin getting to know new people. Take your time to establish communication and move at your own pace.
Be careful with your signatures. Many of us use multiple signature lines for our personal and business e-mail correspondence that include our phone numbers and addresses. Obviously you’ll want to leave this information out when first contacting any singles you meet through the personals.
Your best option might be opening an entirely new free e-mail account, to use just for your communications with singles you meet online.
Remember, you’re in control. No one should ever pressure you into revealing anything about yourself that you want to keep private. Anyone who does is not respecting your boundaries, and is probably not worth contacting further.
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Online Dating Sites and Cyberspace Boom as Economy Slows Says Www.hookmeup.com.au
By Matched | August 21, 2010
The worldwide recession dominates all forms of media, with this topic now easily surpassing recent long term headlines such as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The majority of people now days have access to an internet connection. Since the Sub prime crisis has reached its current level, internet usage has been recorded at its highest level on record (source: Jennifer Dowling ‘Daily Post’)
Apart from the usual small monthly fee required for an internet connection, there are no costs involved to explore millions of opportunities that can be found searching Google. As our economy slows, retail spending and purchasing of big ticket items have slowed as many of us look for ways to save money.
Current search engine statistics reveal that the word free is now in the top 10 searched terms on the internet. With the many thousands of industries that make up our economy, very few can be found that actually seek out and market their services to specifically entice customers to use their product or service at no cost and don’t expect any payment.
Free online dating and online singles services are currently seeing increased traffic volumes as offerings of free services across the internet are being searched in massive numbers.
There have been big declines in revenues with the paid sites and its little wonder when people can get the same thing for free. In many respects the free dating sites are virtually recession proof, especially the ones run as a one man show. The large sites with many employees and fixed costs will do it tough and will see a slow down inline with the economy in general.
Free online dating sites such as www.hookmeup.com.au from Australia have reported a rapid increase in memberships since the current economic climate has taken hold. The increase in traffic means extra revenue for website owners through advertising.
The Australian dollar is currently worth 50% less than the US dollar. Advertising revenue sources such as Google Adsense pay out their advertising revenue to free Australian online dating sites in US dollars which converts to 50% higher revenue when converted to Australian dollars.
So while most business industries are experiencing a slow down in turn over the free internet dating sector is shouldering some of the fallout and profiting as a result.
Jennifer Dowling from ‘The Post’ reports that finding love and romance was the main priority for more than 80% of single university students who took part in a recent survey.
University students are the main group of singles contributing to the current free online dating boom as they look for ways to save money and still enjoy the best things in life.
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Are Online Dating Singles Who Smoke ‘desperate and Dateless’?
By Matched | August 20, 2010
Compared with the common population, a greater proportion of the women and older adult males who advertise themselves on dating sites smoke, according to some light hearted studies published in the March edition of the Medical Journal.
The study comes from Simon Hillman, Professor of Public Wellness at the University of Sydney, and doctors Melanie Hatfield and Sarah Meers from the Cancer Council.
The report looked at 102,191 advertisements on Hookmeup’, an Australian web-based online dating site, in April this year, and registered smoking status of people advertising on the web site, including the ‘Top 100′ males and females advertisers, based on the amount of times each advertisements were looked at.
“In each age group for adult females, there were higher balances of smokers among the advertisers than in the common population,” Professor Hillman said.
“This represented the case for males aged 50 years and beyond.
“By comparison, there was a higher balance of non-smokers in the ‘Top 100′ males or females advertisers age 20-29 years (85 %) compared with total Hookmeup advertisers in this age grouping (69 %).
“Eighty five percentage of men and 78 percentage of women in the two ‘Top 100′ groupings were non-smokers, with only 2 % of both sexes laying claim to be regular smokers.
“Singles ‘clicking on’ the photos of advertisers do not recognise the person’s smoking position before they view the data supplied.
“Hence, the ‘Top 100′ men and women are picked out for their looks. That just 2 per cent of these 200 people were daily smokers hints that smoking may be linked with less appealing looks.
“Such data could allow a lot of smokers extra motivation to give up,” Professor Hillman said.
With all the internet online dating niche sites on the market, perhaps there could be a singles site set up that just caters for non-smokers. The internet dating industry has seen many unusual niche sites emerge such as owner/pet dating sites, dating sites catering only for black people, specific religion groups, just to name a few.
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