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Checking on online daters a growing issue
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2549 days ago Ramon Thomas

Checking on online daters a growing issue

NEW YORK - A fast-growing online dating service in Texas says it is offering its users something none of its big competitors can match: a safer date. True.com, which was founded in Dallas last year, says it now has 3 million active members who agree to have criminal background checks done on themselves and their potential dates. But Herb Vest, 60, the founder and chief executive of True.com, said that he isn't satisfied with business success alone. He is lobbying state legislators to change the law so that online dating services must inform their clients whether or not Read More →
Research and the Realities of Internet Dating
Online Dating 16
2587 days ago Ramon Thomas

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you blind and carrots will make you able to see in the dark, the stigma attached to Internet dating is old fashioned, outdated and fast becoming a mindset of the past.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 →
How To Look For Love Online
Online Dating 16
2604 days ago Ramon Thomas

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 →
No web sex please, we’re British
Online Dating 16
2629 days ago Ramon Thomas

No web sex please, we’re British

UK men make some of the world's most faithful partners, with only one per cent visiting dating websites in search of extramarital liaisons, research has claimed. According to a newly published global study by dating site CupidBay.com, married men living in India proved to be the most unfaithful, where an astonishing 49 per cent actively seek sexual relationships on the web. Second place in the love rat stakes was Pakistan, with seven per cent of husbands using the internet to seek extramarital sex. This was followed by men from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, at six per cent and five per cent respectively. In Read More →
Online personals sites falling in popularity
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2653 days ago The Webmaster

Online personals sites falling in popularity

Thirty-three percent fewer consumers are browsing online personals today than one year ago, causing the industry growth to slow considerably, says a new report. JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, today announced some of the key findings of its latest report on the online personals industry, "Online Dating: Serious Daters Offer Salve For Slowing Growth", which is based on a survey of over 2,300 online adults, and also includes JupiterResearch's forecast for the growth of the online personals market. "For years, online dating sites saw large numbers of new users flowing into the market every year," said JupiterResearch Associate Analyst Nate Elliott. "As Read More →
Online Dating is a serious business for South Africans
Online Dating 16
2820 days ago Ramon Thomas

Online Dating is a serious business for South Africans

Almost a quarter million South Africans have used online dating services - and those who engage in it take it very seriously. This is one of the key findings in The NETucation Report: Online Dating in South Africa 2004. According to the survey conducted in June 2004 by NETucation, an independent Internet Marketing company, 67% of people using online dating services in South Africa take them seriously enough to pay for the privilege. "People pay real money for the privilege of connecting with other prospective mates via online dating," says Ramon Thomas, Managing Director of NETucation. "The Read More →

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