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Monthly archive April, 2005

Research and the Realities of Internet Dating

By Pam Wolstenholme Mention Internet dating in conversation, and you will get varied reactions. Visions of meeting desperate women who can't seem to meet and keep a man are common. Questions of why people would choose to meet an assortment of dirty old men looking for sex or stalkers searching for their next victim are frequent. But just like the old wives tales that masturbating will make you blind and carrots will make you able to see in the dark, the stigma attached to Internet dating is old fashioned, outdated and fast becoming a mindset of the past. Research conducted last year Read More →

Falling in Love by Francesco Alberoni

http://www.alberoni.it/versione-inglese/default.aspIt should come as no surprise that the subject of this book is of course, love. More specifically, Alberoni deals with those all-too-brief and utterly captivating moments when one first falls in love. He attempts to unlock all the rather bizarre and, sometimes, completely diotic, forces that drive our behaviour in this frenzied state. For those lucky enough to be experiencing the first signs of true love, I doubt that this book will do the sensations they experience any justice, simply because words are no match for the real thing. For the rest of Read More →

Black Monday Lovesong by ASJ Tessimond

My friend Jenny Hirsch sent me this amazing poem once and it resonated with me so much based on my research into dating and attraction dynamics between men and women. In love's dances, in love's dances One retreats and one advances. One grows warmer and one colder, One more hesitant, one bolder. One gives what the other needed Once, or will need, now unheeded. One is clenched, compact, ingrowing While the other's melting, flowing. One is smiling and concealing While the other's asking, kneeling. One is arguing or sleeping While the other's weeping, weeping. And the question finds no answer And the tune misleads the dancer And the lost look Read More →

So close but yet so far

I took a walk tonight just to clear my head. Trying to write 10,000 words for an assignment is no mean task. Well it was around 8pm and the sky in Johannesburg was clear. I tried to identify Orion's Belt as I have been doing in recent months whenever there is a clear sky. I thought to myself it's so vast, the sky that is, but yet so simple. It has a calming effect on me. I wish I could become a star gazer and look it more often with a better understanding. Maybe I'll do that Astronomy Read More →

Westlife at The Dome in Johannesburg

Went to see the Westlife concert at The Dome in Northgate today. Wow! I never thought much of this boy band and considered them a fad for a while. But hey they're really slick bunch and the music is very catchy. They put on a great show but sad to say it was a bit short for the money paid. Total show must have been less then 1.5 hours and lets just forget Heinz Winkler opened for them. Who is he again? Read More →

DatingBuzz website review

DatingBuzz has been around since 1997 as its previous incarnation Matchmaker (www.matchmaker.co.za NOT matchmaker.com). Not to be confused with the international Matchmaker.com website which is owned by Lycos, the DatingBuzz brand was launched in 2002. The main website is www.datingbuzz.com but a brilliant marketing strategy has allowed DatingBuzz to rebrand its website and create partnership opportunities major media companies in South Africa like Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian and 5FM. So anyone registering with these and over 70 other websites is pooled into one big database therefore giving everyone a lot more choice. At last count Read More →

How To Look For Love Online

NEW YORK, March 31, 2005 - Remember the first time you heard about people meeting online? Maybe you thought "that's weird" or "wow, times must be really tough." But today, online dating is socially acceptable and totally mainstream. Watch the video clip from CBS News As a matter of fact, 26 million people visit dating sites each month. It's predicted that consumers will spend over $500 million on online dating services this year. So in day two of the "Looking for Love" series, The Early Show turns to AOL's Consumer Adviser Regina Lewis for tips on finding love online. Lewis says that Read More →
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