BBC NEWS — June 21 — A mobile/online dating firm has been criticised over an advertisement for its text dating service which could encourage teenagers to make dates with strangers. Textandmeet, promised: "You could be meeting someone tonight." The words, "over 18s only" were featured in the small print. The Advertising Standards Authority said it was possibly "irresponsible". It was "concerned" the poster could imply it was "acceptable for young people to make dates with strangers". It was spotted by a member of the public near a local swimming pool, cinema and a fast food restaurant. The posters depicted a bikini-clad woman sitting by a swimming pool with a mobile phone while three men looked on. All posters have now been removed. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
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Text Date Advertisement Deemed ‘Irresponsible’
BBC NEWS — June 21 — A mobile/online dating firm has been criticised over an advertisement for its text dating service which could encourage teenagers to make dates with strangers. Textandmeet, promised: "You could be meeting someone tonight." The words, "over 18s only" were featured in the small print. The Advertising Standards Authority said it was possibly "irresponsible". It was "concerned" the poster could imply it was "acceptable for young people to make dates with strangers". It was spotted by a member of the public near a local swimming pool, cinema and a fast food restaurant. The posters depicted a bikini-clad woman sitting by a swimming pool with a mobile phone while three men looked on. All posters have now been removed. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
Lonely Welsh Seek Help in Dating
BBC NEWS — June 14 — Of 3 million people in Wales, 45% are single. UK programme, ‘week in week out,’ questioned 800 people and also called on dating expert Henry Enos, a lecturer at the University of Glamorgan, to analyse the results. According to the survey, more than 20% of the population in Wales have used some form of mediated dating. With those questioned for the programme, the most popular way of meeting a potential partner was through a blind date, followed by online dating and speed dating as equal second. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
Online Dating Good For Romance
BBC — Feb 14 — Bath University psychologist, Jeff Gavin, surveyed 229 online daters. He told BBC News that 4% were already married. UK-based internet dating agencies have an estimated six million subscribers. only 9% of chatroom users chose to converse via a webcam, most "shying away" in favour of "text-based relationships." Almost one in five of those interviewed had started a relationship lasting more than a year via a dating website. Male website customers tended to be "more committed" than female ones, as subsequent chatroom conversations gave them a way to express their feelings which did not normally exist. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
Video Phones Act as Dating Tools
BBC NEWS — Hundreds have submitted a mobile video profile to win a place at the world’s first video mobile dating event. The top 100 meet their match on 30 November at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. The event, organised by the 3G network, 3, could catch on as the trend for unusual dating events, like speed dating, continues. BBC NEWS