Are you ready for "Dating Sunday"? This Sunday, Jan. 6, has been named "Dating Sunday," or the busiest dating day of the year on dating apps and sites due to the spike in people signing in that day to find love.
Read moreHow Tinder creates better matches using AWS image recognition technology →
The dating app is using the cloud vendor's image recognition technology to better categorise and match users
Read moreDo's and don'ts for profile pictures on dating sites →
Like male peacocks showing off their magnificent plumage to attract a mate, some men on dating sites post topless mirror gym selfies. Not such a good idea, according to dating experts. Women, they say, tend to swipe left when they see gym selfies. Likewise, dating sites are full of women's selfies taken from an elevated vantage point, highlighting their cleavage.
Read moreCan a Dating Coach Help You Find Your Soul Mate? →
Jonathan Robinson thought his text exchanges with an attractive woman he met on a dating app were going so well that he asked her out. He was delighted when she said yes. But then she asked about his past relationships. After he said he was divorced, she peppered him with questions: When was the breakup? Was he really over his ex? Did he feel emotionally available? Mr. Robinson froze. Then he placed an emergency phone call—to his dating coach. “I said that my date was about to fall apart,” says the 36-year-old computer systems analyst, who lives in Allentown, Pa. “I need help.”
Read moreInterview: Grace and Rachel from A Good First Date
We are so excited to introduce you to Grace and Rachel, the co-founders of A Good First Date. A Good First Date is essentially your therapist, life coach, relationship coach, and best friend, all rolled up together.
Read moreHinge Is Hiring An Anti-Retention Specialist To Get Users Off The App & Dating IRL →
Typically, you hear about companies trying to keep their customers. They're trying to protect themselves against their competition, get the customers hooked, and keep having the same loyal following for life. It's all about retention — or at least, it usually is. But now Hinge, the relationship app, is hiring an Anti-Retention Specialist. That's right, an anti-retention specialist — in other words, they're looking for someone to get users off of their dating app.
Read moreYou could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators →
Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. I flirt with every woman in his queue for 10 minutes, sending their photos and locations to a central database of potential “Opportunities.” For every phone number I get, I make $1.75. I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants).
Read moreWhy Silicon Valley singles are giving up on the algorithms of love →
Kate Chan, a 30-year-old digital marketer in Silicon Valley, first approached dating apps with a blend of curiosity and hope that they’d help her find a great guy. But after six months of dead-end mismatches with guys she thought were boring or work-obsessed, she has gone back to what she called “meeting the old-fashioned way”: without a screen.
Read moreMasters of Love →
Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.
Read moreFirst Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society →
Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
Read moreHow to write a killer dating profile
Now that you have a set of attention grabbing photos, you need to intrigue them with your profile.
Read moreMatchmaker Interview: Morgan Jones
Our next interview is with Morgan Jones, a matchmaker at Three Day Rule. Morgan is based in San Francisco and specializes in working with busy professionals who are serious enough about their dating lives to invest both time and money into working with a matchmaker.
Read moreMatchmaker Interview: Sasha Silberberg
We're kicking off a series of interviews with some of our favorite San Francisco Bay Area matchmaker partners. Our first matchmaker, Sasha Silberberg, is the founder of OkSasha, a matchmaking firm for singles in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s in the Bay area.
Read moreBest Dating Profile Photos
Meeting online and meeting IRL share fundamental similarities, yet the vast majority of people on the dating apps forget this fact. This is good news for you. If you are thoughtful about how you present yourself online, and follow some of the tips laid out below, you'll easily set yourself apart from the crowd, and get more right swipes from quality matches.
Read more10 Tips to Instantly Look Better in Front of the Camera
Let’s face it, in front of the camera is not always the most comfortable place to be. Oftentimes, you swear you look way hotter in life than what the photos suggest. So here are some quick and easy ways to become more photogenic.
Read moreCould virtual reality dating save us from Tinder, or push us even further back? →
Dating apps that rely on quick swipes may soon seem as outdated and quaint as meeting your future partner in the frozen food section.
Read moreWhy You Should Let Someone Else Choose Your Tinder Photo →
An unsung skill of the social networking age is the ability to pick a good profile picture, whether for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Tinder. It’s no trivial matter: people make up their minds about another person's personality and likability within a second of viewing their photograph.
Read moreMillennials are open to an age-old idea about marriage: that it should be temporary →
In Nov. 1891, the British sexologist Havelock Ellis married the writer and lesbian Edith Lees. He was 32 and a virgin. And since he was impotent, they never consummated their union. After their honeymoon, the two lived separately in what he called an open marriage. The union lasted until Lees’ death in 1916. This is not what most would consider a model marriage. But perhaps because of its unusualness, Ellis was able to introduce an idea that remains as radical and tantalizing today as it was in his time: trial marriages.
Read moreThe Matchmaker Who Flirts on Dating Apps for You →
How do you succeed on Tinder without really trying? Some New York singles have it figured out: They pay a dating-app ghostwriter to do the flirting for them. That’s right, ladies. The next time a guy sends you a particularly witty opener on Coffee Meets Bagel, consider the possibility that it was written by a 41-year-old married mother of two on the Upper West Side. That would be Meredith Golden, New York City’s Tinder whisperer.
Read moreThe best tool you can use for getting great dates: spell check →
In the world of work, recruiters repeatedly say that incorrect spelling, grammar, and formatting are the fastest way to get your application ignored. But for online dating? Yes, says new research from dating company OKCupid: Sticklers for punctuation and the correct use of grammar are more likely to find love online.
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