PRESS RELEASE – Apr 2 – While Facebook has become the most popular social network for communicating with family and friends, its generic profiles aren’t suitable for online dating and there is no easy way to find matches or make connections. Smartdate.com enables its users to make a direct link live from Facebook – where they can automatically import their profile, set it up for dating, and search among friends of friends. FULL ARTICLE @ BIG NEWS
“Users of the dating site can meet the friends of their Facebook friends, based on their own compatibility criteria. According to Smartdate Founder and CEO Fabrice Le Parc, this function provides the dating public with a way to meet people on the Internet that is more realistic and closer to real life.”
“There is no more reliable group of people to search for a date or even a life partner, online or offline, than from friends of friends,” said Le Parc. “It’s the safest, surest, most foolproof way to find a soul mate, or just to meet interesting people – and Smartdate.com makes it easy to do with Facebook.”
Daters had been doing that with other Facebook applications and in real life with high divorce rates. Moreover it is very interesting to careful read the research conducted by Dr. Hancock et al because it explains why Serious Online Dating (serious daters = the ones who want to achieve a long term relationship with commitment or marriage) and Social Networking will never merge.
Perceivers’ personality trait ratings of Facebook profiles showed some correlation with users’ own self ratings and friends’ ratings [Extraversion was the only Big Five trait that showed evidence for meta-accuracy]
However, recent research also shows that there is deception involved in online profiles, raising issues of the credibility of information found online.
extracted from these 4 papers
“Personality Impressions Based on Facebook Profiles”
“Making Sense of Strangers’ Expertise from Signals in Digital Artifacts”
“The Truth about Lying in Online Dating Profiles”
“Deception and Design: The Impact of Communication Technology on Lying Behavior”
“Users of the dating site can meet the friends of their Facebook friends, based on their own compatibility criteria. According to Smartdate Founder and CEO Fabrice Le Parc, this function provides the dating public with a way to meet people on the Internet that is more realistic and closer to real life.”
“There is no more reliable group of people to search for a date or even a life partner, online or offline, than from friends of friends,” said Le Parc. “It’s the safest, surest, most foolproof way to find a soul mate, or just to meet interesting people – and Smartdate.com makes it easy to do with Facebook.”
Daters had been doing that with other Facebook applications and in real life with high divorce rates. Moreover it is very interesting to careful read the research conducted by Dr. Hancock et al because it explains why Serious Online Dating (serious daters = the ones who want to achieve a long term relationship with commitment or marriage) and Social Networking will never merge.
Perceivers’ personality trait ratings of Facebook profiles showed some correlation with users’ own self ratings and friends’ ratings [Extraversion was the only Big Five trait that showed evidence for meta-accuracy]
However, recent research also shows that there is deception involved in online profiles, raising issues of the credibility of information found online.
extracted from these 4 papers
“Personality Impressions Based on Facebook Profiles”
“Making Sense of Strangers’ Expertise from Signals in Digital Artifacts”
“The Truth about Lying in Online Dating Profiles”
“Deception and Design: The Impact of Communication Technology on Lying Behavior”
“where they can automatically import their profile…” – violation of facebook policies.
“where they can automatically import their profile…” – violation of facebook policies.