Dating is hard enough. Add the Internet and, well, things get complicated. But that wasn't the plan.Online dating was supposed to make it easier for busy, working singles--who are so busy, in fact, they can't even get to the bar after work--to find love. It looks so easy. Just log on to one of several high-profile online dating sites, pay the fee and join the 40 million other Americans who are using the Internet to hook up.Except they don't...
The National Association of Juvenile Guidance Counselors said Thursday it will monitor the contents of online dating service to prevent minors from falling victim to crimes, particularly juvenile prostitution. Starting June 1, 112 juvenile counselors and other volunteers across Japan will conduct the so-called ''cyber patrol.'' If a counselor finds minors under the age of 18 using online dating sites, they will alert the minors by...
Online dating sites have replaced nightclubs as singles' ghettos. Yet I can't determine whether it's better to have met a person online or in a club.They both have their share of issues. In some ways, online dating sites are better than clubs. You don't have to get dressed up and go out if you want to participate in the singles' scene. You can do it from the convenience of your home, in your bathrobe and slippers.In...
Edge Communications, Inc. Ken Greenberg, 818-990-5001 ken@edgecommunicationsinc.com Online dating is flourishing in Western Europe as singles worldwide take to the Web in their search for love and companionship. Userplane (www.userplane.com), the leading provider of live community software, today announced the deployment of its Flash applications on an expanding roster of UK-based dating and social networking sites. According to Britain's TimesOnline...
(*#_Company_Name_#*) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- As the popularity of online dating services such as EHarmony and Matchmaker.com grow in the lives of middle-age singles across the country, it seems like it is only a matter of time before such a service infiltrates college campuses. In a technologically based world where instant messaging and e-mails are replacing face-to-face and even phone conversations, the future of computer dating looks to become less of a desperate attempt for love and more of an...