Tag: MATCH.COM

Share It used to be that, if you wanted to meet that special someone, you had to chat up people at bars or go on dates set up by friends and family. Sure, there have always been personal ads and dating services, but they were generally considered the realm of the desperate. But now, social networks have turned the Internet into one giant repository of personal ads, and much of the stigma ...

Rejection is a cold, hard fact of life. When it comes to dating, everyone's going to get dissed a time or two. While it's never fun, we here at Switched have found that keeping our heads up and moving forward (and watching a few rocket explosion videos on YouTube) works best. However, some folks, like New Yorker Sean McGinn, do not share our enthusiasm for 'getting over it.' McGinn says ...

According to USA Today, Internet dating site eHarmony is reporting that the number of military members joining its site grew by more than 50-percent between 2006 and 2008. It may not be Casablanca in the '40s, but the Web is turning into quite the place for deployed soldiers to fall in love. These days, soldiers don't have to rely on letters anymore -- satellite phones, wireless networks, and ...

It's kind of amazing to us that pay-for Internet dating sites have survived at all. Between MySpace, Facebook, Craigslist, and the myriad of free straightforward dating sites (like Plentyoffish, OkCupid, and Mingle2), that Match.com and eHarmony are still going is quite surprising. Match.com is hedging its bets in the deflating economy by unveiling its new free dating service, Down to Earth. ...

Everyone's doing it - over 40 percent of U.S. singles are finding matches online. That's more than 40 million single Americans cruising the Internet looking for love (based on census results that say there are over 100 million single Americans). So the Internet must be a great place to find true love, right? Not so fast. While online dating can be a great way to find someone new, dating ...

Everyone's doing it - over 40 percent of U.S. singles are finding matches online. That's more than 40 million single Americans cruising the Internet looking for love (based on census results that say there are over 100 million single Americans). So the Internet must be a great place to find true love, right? Not so fast. While online dating can be a great way to find someone new, dating ...

5. Cheaters How is it possible that this new, wonderful person is still single? In fact, he or she may not be. While there are some great singles out there waiting to steal your heart away, some of them are not, in fact, single. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that some people use dating sites as a way to get a little something on the side when they're out of town. Consider this story ...

4. Membership Fishers You finally got a response to your profile, and she's hot! You're all set to respond to the beauty queen, but there's one problem: Her profile happens to be over at some other site. Of course, before you can send her a note on her profile, you're asked by the new dating site she's listed with the to sign up. Before you know it, you're a member of a new dating site, and ...

2. Photo Fakes Dating site traffic analyses show that profiles with pictures are clicked on twice as much as those without. Having a good picture of yourself can be the difference between getting seen and getting lost. However, some people take the notion of "looking good" a little too far. They post misleading pictures that can trap you into thinking you're meeting your dreamboat only to ...