Matchmaking Service News

There are bonuses and disadvantages to just about everything.

The most significant advantages of using an online matchmaking service are:

• Convenience.

There really is no more convenient way to find a new dating partner, unless you have your own personal matchmaker.

Then for the hidden matchmaking service bonus:

• Mental connection

The only thing you have to go by when dating online, often times, will be a sometimes exaggerated picture, so physical looks is not a huge factor to start with. This means the time you do spend talking before meeting, is time learning each other’s personality. Keep in mind, many things in the online dating world may be exaggerations or even fibs.  As long as you remember that, you can get a good idea of their mind. Now for the biggest drawback:

• Physical connection

This is why it is imperative to meet before any significant attachment is built up. Even if your minds link up perfectly, if there is no chemistry it can be a tough relationship. So online dating, if used to merely screen dates for the right personality, can be a great way of meeting new, fun, people. Then if you connect physically, you’ve just found your perfect match! In all seriousness, for many guys, in person looks are everything, but when that aspect is hidden, we actually find it easier to link up. For good looking people, this could mean someone liking you for more than your body. A great analogy is a rich man who doesn’t want to share the fact that he is rich, because then he cannot know if his potential dates like him or just his money.

Lava Life dating, one of the largest online matchmaking services, starting up in 1987, and operating other dating services under various names such as webpersonals.com, has just launched a new matchmaking magazine, lavalifemagazine.com, talking about the latest dating trends, styles, and giving matchmaking advice to all the potential lovers out there. LavaLife magazine has a “contest” section, horoscopes, and even gives sexual advice. The target audience is obviously the young, hip, urban type crowd, and Lava Life’s bold move might just pay off. LavaLife isn’t the first company to make such a move however, as Match.com launched a magazine last year, and it seems Lava Life is looking to have similar luck with their new magazine.

Match.com has begun to add sections onto it’s site, where it quite literally speculates, “Match.com estimates it has inspired millions of relationships. Millions of members. Hundreds of thousands of new relationships.” Even the biggest online matchmaking service sites only put out numbers like “30-40 marriages a year” or something small like that, so with that in mind, Match.com has gone out on a leap. Perhaps it is finally time that a matchmaking service has done so, as many people ARE getting married from online dating services, and don’t report it. Actually a majority of online daters probably don’t report their marriage that resulted from an online matchmaking service, dare I say, very few do. This is not because they are ungrateful, but simply because they either forgot, or just didn’t think it was all that important. Or perhaps they didn’t want to be dragged onto some TV infomercial (in case that’s one of you out there, don’t hesitate they do pay those people quite a bit of money, I imagine), back on topic though, Match is becoming the first to guestimate the actual impact the matchmaking website is having on creating relationships. It’s probably only a matter of time before we can expect others to follow suit.

In a recent poll from Gallup, 95% of people aged 18 to 29, approve of interracial couples dating together. This is a tremendous increase over older generations, which I believe online dating services could have very well played a big part in. Online Interracial Dating is a huge growing industry, and naturally has opened people that would have once not considered it, to try it. In a sense, online interracial dating has opened the doors to a new future without racism, and a opened the doors to people’s hearts… across racial lines.

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True.com has reached 13 million members. You couldn’t tell just by looking, after all their website only mentions “over 10 million members”. However, in their aggressive marketing campaigns true has sporadically mentioned “13 million members” as a number, leading us to believe there is some truth to it, probably based on rough estimations before they finally confirm it soon enough. This is a definite change considering over the past few months True.com has advertised usually the 10-12 million mark, and this recent campaign being the first mention of 13 million.

Truly a high number! Reaching up towards the largest American dating service, Match.com’s 15 million.

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Let’s face it: most people exaggerate their profiles for online dating. Don’t let that discourage you! Just keep in mind that the picture might be very-very well taken, or a really good looking person is diminiushed by less good looking ones that take great pictures! Joking aside, if you just take a bit of a skeptic eye to each profile, online dating is a great experience. First, don’t get too attached too early, and don’t just scope out for one date, look at many different potential dates, and give them all a try, until you find one that interests you.

With the right attitude, the right bit of skepticism until trust is earned, online dating can be a great tool to help you find new love in your life.

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A recent TV news magazine show recently reported a survey of what men want in a woman. The answers were divided between beauty (48%), brains (36%) and a combination of both (16%).

Maybe not surprising, but interesting to note is that very few picked the combination. Guess it’s good to be one or the other!

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According to the National Sex Survey, only 1% of married women said they had an affair in the past year compared to 8% of cohabiting women. Among men, 4% are unfaithful husbands vs. 16% who cohabit.

That means the risk is nearly 4 times as much for cohabiting men, and 8 times as much for cohabiting women, than for their married counterparts.

Which is odd, considering marriage is just a piece of paper. After all, marriage is merely a ceremony that represents sex, the union of two people. So indeed cohabiting individuals are “married” in the sense that they have joined flesh, but yet are in denial of any real commitment to which they have to hold to. And so, infidelity is more common and seperation.

Yet the breakup of cohabiting individuals is just as painful as divorce, it is like ripping that flesh apart from each other.

This is why it’s important to line out your marriage stance with your partner, whether or not you need a lavish ceremony, the moment you begin “living” together, and join flesh, you have all the same pains and joys of marriage, just without a legal agreement to stay commited to one another that society can help enforce.

It’s good to find out the marriage stance of a potential mate, to avoid one who is not ready for the ceremony, yet ready for the thing it represents, without any of the commitment.

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Knowing when to quit. You see, if you are feeling frustrated to the point of being with someone else, the honorable thing to do is to break up, leave the other person. Communicate the frustration with your mate. Cheating is usually the result of cowardice, an unwillingness to express that frustration or anger with the other person.

Part of the problem lies with our current societal norm of casual sex. Marriage, after all, is merely a ceremony that represents sex, the joining of two people. The piece of paper means nothing. What it symbolizes is commitment to each other after joining together. Since sex is commonplace, dating ITSELF has become marriage. A vast majority of american daters instantly expect an exclusive relationship from the moment they start dating. This is why most people don’t even see the point in marriage, because they have unknowingly already made that commitment to stay with each other from day one.

Is there a remedy at this point and time for America? Perhaps not, but what we can learn from this societal mistake is that commitment has been marginalized by the pressure sex has placed on daters to instantly be commited, without the level of bonding that should usually occur before the joining of two people takes place.

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In a recent press release, Date has announced that it has over 10 million members and is growing at a pace of roughly 250,000 members a MONTH. The large matchmaking service is rightfully proud, as that is an amazing number of members, and an equally astounding rate of growth, arguably the fastest of all the online dating websites.

Simply amazing. Date of course then goes on to list reasons to explain their success such as easy navigation, and advanced searching tools, but I think they should just let the numbers talk for themselves!

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