BERKELEY — Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behaviour such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone. Text messages in cognitive behaviour therapy can make people feel less isolated Adrian…
The website www.lovemail.co.za has been around since 1999 and started out as the online personals for Junk Mail. Two years later they totally revamped the website and it became a fully functional online dating website with matchmaking technology and SMS capability built in. Unlike other websites, Love Mail offers the users a choice between chatting…
[November 17, 2004] Dow Jones Market Monitor By Riva Richmond Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Yahoo Inc. wants to find someone to love the real you. On Wednesday, the Internet giant plans to launch a new, pricier class of its popular online dating service that it says will help singles better understand who…
BRYANSTON – Only 12% of South Africans have used the Internet to find love. This is compared to 29% of the French and 21% of Filipinos interviewed in a global survey about dating perceptions, use of the Internet to find a romantic partner and the level of success that they have had. Synovate surveyed 4…
Black Online Dating Users Increased by 64% in 2005 The number of Black users of online dating services increased to 18% of total users in 2005, up from 11% in 2004. This represents a 64% year-on-year increase and is one of the key findings from a new research report, The NETucation Report – Online Dating…
Match.com the biggest online dating network of websites in the world has teamed up with Dr Phil. There is three hilarious tv commercials that have been produced and I was laughing my ass off with Dr Phil’s comments and they visual way in which the benefits of online dating is shown. It really can be…
Two thirds of singles in Britain looking for love turned to electronic dating agencies in 2005, figures published in the Times showed today. Experts believe that online dating has revolutionised the dating game and become a “perfect example of technological Darwinism”. A survey by with more than 1.5 million members, reported that 3.6 million Britons…
The 2005 Online Dating Survey which launches today explores how the Internet is changing the sexual behaviour of South Africans. NETucation, the company behind the online dating research is the leading BEE Internet research company and studies the behaviour of South Africans using the Internet. “Now that we understand the basics of how and why…
Ramon Thomas joins us on the line, he is MD of NETucation and he is going to be chatting to us about online dating. P: Hi Ramon RT: Hi Prim, thanks for having me on the show. P: Well thanks very much for taking the time, why online dating, why not the traditional way of…
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”,…
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