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Dating Services

heartIt's a jungle out there. With more than 1,000 dating sites listing hundreds of millions of online personals, plus matchmakers and meetups, where do you turn? Maybe you've been looking for a while and have been disappointed with your dating service. We can help you pick a new one. And we invite you to share your war stories and successes to help guide other love-seekers.

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Our Dating Analyst reads between the lines and identifies the red flags. Learn how to decode, and submit one of your own for analysis.

Outsourcing

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Writing a dating profile should be easy, right? You list some of your many wonderful qualities, describe your ideal mate, slap on a photo you took with your cell phone and voila! Time to start evaluating the many offers that come your way. Except it turns out that it’s not that easy.

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Dating Services Reading List

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It may seem old-fashioned to buy a book about going online to find love, but many of these offer insights not easily found electronically. Since so much changes on the web, we've included publication dates. Feel free to update this list.

Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships (2006)
by Monica T. Whitty and Adrian N. Carr

Everyone's Guide to Online Dating: How to Find Love and Friendship on the Internet (2007) by Shimrit Elisar

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Addicted to First Dates

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How do you feel before a first date with someone you've only met virtually? Anxious? Excited? Filled with optimism and a sense of possibility?

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How NOT to Write a Dating Profile (Part 1)

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Like great art, we recognize a perfect profile when we see it. It makes us smile. It resonates. It draws us in and gets us writing a response.

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