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The Unofficial Singles Census: Mapping Our Online Dating Lingo
Quick: What’s the capital of Alabama? Well that’s a simple question and answer, so let’s try something a little more ambiguous: How do most single Alabamians living in Montgomery describe themselves...
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Want to Get Lucky On a First Date? Go Out With a Hard Rock Fan
Trying to figure out if you might get lucky tonight? Ask your date what kind of music he or she listens to. Tastebuds.fm, an online dating service that pairs you up with single people who have similar...
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Woman Sues Match.com After Alleged Sexual Assault
Nothing kills romance like discovering you’ve been flirting with a felon. But now a Los Angeles entertainment executive is taking matters into her own hands by suing the online dating site Match.com...
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After Sexual Assault Controversy, Match.com To Start Background Checks on...
We’re hoping this makes the process of meeting your true love online just a little bit easier, though you never can be too careful. After an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles went on a couple of...
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Forget Online Dating: Man Searches for Perfect Woman Using Facebook Ads
How can you find the girl of your dreams? Buy an ad! So says Matt Simpson, a tech-savvy American entrepreneur who’s using Facebook to target the — spiritual, yoga-practicing, between 28-35 and living...
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Unlucky Date: Online Dating Prank Fails to Form ‘Involuntary Flashmob’
Call it the curse of Friday the 13th. A few poor online daters were conned into showing up to non-existent dates. But at the core, the joke was on the organizers. The gawkers that showed up in New...
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Survey: Women Who Use ‘Guy Humor’ Get All the Guys
What do guys want? Themselves, apparently. Or at least someone who has an identical sense of humor. According to a study of 331,138 eHarmony male users, the style of humor that men most appreciate from...
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After Facebook Romance Goes Downhill, Woman Sues Ex
A Michigan woman is suing her long-distance love saying he ended their relationship for another woman. How much is a broken heart worth? Apparently, $8,368.88. The Seattle Times reports that Cheryl...
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Search for Woman Missing in Aruba Echoes Natalee Holloway Case
Another U.S. woman has disappeared while traveling in Aruba. Maryland native Robyn Gardner, 35, was last seen on Aug. 2 in an area called Baby Beach for its shallow waters, Aruba public prosecutor’s...
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Reading While Eating for August 19: Potpourri
Friday’s links offer a little bit of this, and a sprinkling of that. Happy almost weekend! Hep Cats: Still trying to make “fetch” happen? Really, stop it, Gretchen Wieners. There’s a reason why certain...
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First Date ‘From Hell’: Woman Forced to Drive Getaway Car After Date Commits...
A woman on a first date was tricked into becoming a getaway driver after her date robbed a betting shop in Wales. And you thought you had dating horror stories. (via The Sun) Leah Gibbs, a 23-year-old...
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Need Backup at the Bar? You Can Now Hire a Wingman
Ladies (and gentlemen): take heed the next time you’re approached by an interested single at a bar. The attractive, overly complimentary friend he’s with might just be hired help. According to the Wall...
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Can Your Smelly Shirt Land You a Better First Date?
Pheromones are wildly publicized as the invisible yet inherently alluring chemical that triggers sexual attraction in mammals, and for some, a new means of finding a match. Atlanta-based artist Judith...
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Single on Valentine’s Day? Five Phrases to Take Off Your Online Dating...
NewsFeed asked Grant Langston, eHarmony's senior director of social media and advice blog coordinator, to walk us through the most overused phrases on online dating profiles.
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Major Online Dating Sites to Start Background Checks on Users
Match.com, eHarmony and Sparks Networks (operator of JDate and ChristianMingle) will scan the histories of possible clients for sexual assault, identity theft and violence before allowing them access...
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Match.com for Animals?
Imagine you’re an otter, paddling around your tank in a zoo, nibbling on the odd fish. It might never occur to you that your human overlords have arranged a lutrine lover for you, using an animal...
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Warm and Fuzzy: Heart Puppet Steals the Show in New Online Dating Ad
Zoosk is an online-dating service that integrates with existing social networks such as Facebook, but the real star of the show isn’t the dreamboats it sets you up with — it’s your very own heart. A...
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Insta-date: New Dating App Makes Blind Dates a Snap
To all the single ladies (and single fellas) out there: time to get crazy. Online dating site OkCupid has launched a new blind date app, and it can hook you up in a hot minute. Crazy Blind Date,...
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Manti Te’o and ‘Catfish’: What’s the Connection to the Fake Girlfriend Scandal?
In 2003, you had to worry about getting “punk’d” by Ashton Kutcher. In 2013, you have to worry about getting “catfished.” In their Deadspin article reporting that “Lennay Kekua”, the girlfriend of...
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New Online-Dating Site Matches Through Google Knowledge Graph
A new online-dating service is aiming to help people skip the first-date small talk with the power of Google’s Knowledge Graph. Loveflutter is connecting singles by creating a real-time graph of...
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