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When speed dating and online dating collide!

SunJournal.com - Love at first site

Great article about the real chemistry to finding a soul mate.

The Pro’s Of Online Dating | Best Syndication

LOVE this article! Everything it states is what I have found to be so very true about online dating!

(Getting ready to try online dating? This is a GREAT place to start: Friend Finder)

wcco.com - Relationships Need More Than Text Messages

This is a great article that can serve to remind us all–no matter how cool internet dating can be, technology isn’t the be all to end all in relationships. Start your relationship on the internet, but take it out of the virtual world asap for truly long lasting romance.

Okay. I am now ready to review this new dating site: WealthyMen
What is WealthyMen?

Wealthy Men is the one and only online personals dating site dedicated to those men & women seeking a higher caliber online dating experience.  Wealthy Men is the online dating site where you will find professional men making over $100k a year.

That Sounds Too Good To Be True!

It does, and while other online dating services might have a problem with people presenting themselves as they truly are, WealthyMen.com has taken care of that.

They have a visible rating scale for their male members. Under each photo, is an icon which shows exactly what the website has verified as being true for each eligible, wealthy bachelor.

If a man has a gold WM icon, that means his income has been verified and approved. A blue Job icon indicates that Wealthymen.com has confirmed that the bachelor’s stated profession is the real deal. Finally (and for some, very importantly) look for the silver Pic icon–that means Wealthymen.com has verified that the picture of the bachelor, is TRULY the bachelor himself.

The site is free to join, and (if the service just isn’t “for you”) easily canceled.

The Pros:

• lots of pics of men, all of which have been verified as wealthy and employed and REAL pics of bachelors to choose from.
• a very easy sign up process. No credit card is required at all-sign up is totally free for the basic service.

The Cons

• The free membership is limited to viewing only partial profiles of the bachelors.
• With free membership, men (or women) can email you, but you cannot email them.
• You do need to “upgrade” your membership to get the good perks. The cheapest, “Silver” allows you to see the whole profile, and to read and respond to private messages. “Gold” membership is a little more expensive, but the perks are better: you get all the things the Silver members get, but you get to be on “top” of every search page. In addition, you can try out the Gold membership for 7 days at a cost of about 10 bucks.
• It is automatic rebilling, so if you want to cancel, be sure to do it before it automatically rebills your card, and get the cancellation confirmation printed out for your records (date and all), so you can refuse any charges made on your card from the service after your cancellation date.

So there you have it. Overall, it follows the MO of typical dating sites, but this has the added perk of showing only wealthy men (or gorgeous potential “trophy wives”) and their information is completely verified by the service.

My recommendation? Sign up for free and browse the pics, if there is one guy or girl out there you just gotta find out more about, go for the trial subscription.

Kerrville Daily Times

The tell-tell signs of love, whether it happens at 60 or 16, are all the same. Although a lot changes with age, the desire for and effects of love don’t diminish with time.

“Your heart still flutters,” said Maurice Williams, 68, whose rosy glow gives her away.

There’s no denying it — she’s in love.

This article really helps to remind us that dating is never easy, no matter how old you are. Actually, I think it’s more difficult the older you get.

Meeting new people when you are looking for love is an added challenge for Senior’s. Many of the common avenues for dating, such as the workplace or nightspots are not available or practical for people who have retired and whose lives are established firmly outside of “hot nightspot life”.
Even meeting people online is daunting. Many Seniors are admittedly computer phobic, and those that aren’ts, well it often seems that the dating sites are more for the young adults in this world. But, while it may seem that way, nothing could be farther from the truth. And I came to that realization while watching a trailer for “Because I Said So”, the movie about the pushy,older single mother who is busy trying to find a man for her daughter.

In one scene, Diane Keaton (the mom) is in front of a computer, and she clicks on a link for the site: AdultFriendFinder.com . Of course, she is scandalized, and titilated and its all hilarious. Supposedly.

The thing is, AdultFriendFinder is only ONE of a series of networked dating sites. They have sites for just about everyone’s taste! And they have one for Seniors. It’s called: SeniorFriendFinder.com.

From their press release:

Senior FriendFinder is an online personals site for people over 40 years of age. With 455,989 active members, Senior FriendFinder easily lets members find a match in their own area or across the world. Featuring active chat rooms, an advice magazine, and more.

Look at that number–almost half a million members! I decided to do a little more digging(don’t want to send any of my nice readers to a shocking adult rated site–unless they want to go to a shocking adult rated site ).

First of all, you don’t have to sign up right away. You can browse a bit. I like that. And I like how they list the members by state and country–they tell exactly how many members there are for each state and province.

Since I live in California, I chose that one to browse. They then offer you a choice between…well…lifestyles. Being straight, I chose to browse “men looking for women”.

Once I clicked on that, I was given another choice; I could browse by what kind of relationship I was looking for:
Activity Partner(s)
A Serious Relationship
Marriage

Or I could browse by age group, with my own age minimums and maximums.

I chose “serious relationship” for my browsing pleasure. And I was pleased to see the variety of men who are all looking for a serious relationship with a similar aged woman. They came from all areas of California, and they all looked very nice.

Once I clicked on a profile pic, I was sent to a page where I could create an account for only…hey! It’s for free! I didn’t know that. Dang, I advertise their sites, too!

Ooh! Another fun feature: Rate The Photo. Brave members put their pics up for other people to rate. Who knows, the man (or woman) of your dreams might be up there!

Anyway, it’s a very good deal and an interesting way to dip one’s toes back into the dating pool after a long while. I definitely recommend giving SeniorFriendFinder a shot.

Tomorrow, I’m going to touch on the best and safest ways to go forth in the online dating world.

Love at first byte - web - Technology - smh.com.au

Intersting article on Internet dating. Love how it starts:

EAGER-to-please woman, 36, seeks domineering man to take advantage of her flagging confidence. Tell me I’m pretty, then watch me cling.

BASTARD. Complete and utter. Whatever you do, don’t reply - you’ll only regret it.

Man, how familiar do those personalities sound?

And this rang a bell for me:
Phoebe Goh, a 22-year-old computer science graduate, spends hours each night fighting the undead on the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft. That’s where she met her partner, Scott, nearly a year ago.

That’s almost exactly how I met my boyfriend! We both play City of Heroes, and our “heroes” teamed together and joined the same SuperGroup and we just loved to chat and email each other.  Then we found out how close we lived, we arraged to meet.  And it all flowed from there.
Interesting stats and more anectdotal stuff on online dating. Read the whole thing (as they say in the blogosphere)

Welcome to my blog! This blog is for all you girls and guys out there who are ready to brave internet dating, but want to start out in the shallow end.

I’ll be posting links to good dating sites, as well as giving advice (as needed) and commenting on the state of online dating, and dating in general. Also keep an eye for “online dating in the news” bits and more