Category: Outlets – Daily Mail

GoodDeedDating.co.uk Brings Together Kind Hearted People

Posted on November 22, 2016

Gooddeeddating uk logoDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Nov 21 – GoodDeedDating.co.uk, launched earlier this year, is the genius idea of Hannah Whitehead (a former charity worker). Rather than being paired off with someone for awkward drinks or dinner, Good Deed daters sign up for a two-hour 'good deed' volunteering session, attended by other singles. It could be planting trees, helping direct people on at a charity run, or working for the Red Cross.

by Liz Hoggard
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Irena Brooks: Spark Networks introduced GoodDeedDating.com in USA two years ago for ChristianMingle's users to meet each other while doing some good for their community.

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China’s Mistress Hunters Saves Marriages

Posted on September 9, 2016

Weiqing agentsAFP – Sep 8 – Rather than seek a divorce, a wife whose husband is having an affair hires "Mistress hunter", a specialist to earn the other woman's trust, and then persuade her to end the the extra-marital relationship. The service costs $60K – $75k. One such company is Weiqing which has 59 offices across the country, and offers free legal advice and lectures. Its founder Shu Xin has 300 agents at his command. "Every year we save ~5k couples." The mistress hunters are mostly women and are all psychology, sociology or law graduates. They spend three years learning the ropes before being sent out into the field, where they pose as neighbours, cleaners or babysitters.

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Dutchman Waited 10 Days At Chinese Airport For A Girl He Met On AsianDate.com

Posted on August 8, 2016

Asianbeauties mobileDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Aug 6 – Love-struck Dutchman who flew 5k miles to meet Chinese woman he met online is hospitalised after waiting 10 days at the airport. She never showed up. She explained later that she had been having a plastic surgery and had turned her phone off while her face was wrapped in gauze. He refused to leave the airport. Coupled with lack of sleep and adequate nutrition he passed out as an effect of his severe diabetes. (The site is AsianBeauties.com, which forwards into AsianDate.com)

by Gabriel Samuels
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OkCupid Is Blasted For Asking Users Inappropriate Question

Posted on May 7, 2016

Okcupid screenshotDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – May 5 – OkCupid has been criticised after posing a question to users asking: 'Would the world be a better place if people with a low IQs were not allowed to reproduce?' The question was posed during the sign up process for the website, after which users are matched with potential love interests. Campaigners with learning disability charity Mencap have branded the question 'inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory', and want it to be removed from the site, as well as an apology from OkCupid. So far ~400 people have signed the poll on Change.org.

by Lucy Crossley
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Match.com Forced To Apologize For Any Offence Its Ad Caused

Posted on April 15, 2016

Matchcom ad reactionsDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Apr 13 – For many, freckles are a sign of individual beauty. Match.com has faced a barrage of criticism for an ad that 'profits by bullying' by calling freckles 'imperfections'. Match.com issued a statement apologizing for any offence caused, insisting it felt freckles were 'beautiful'.

by Tom Witherow
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Tinder Being Used By Children As Young As 13

Posted on April 12, 2016

Tinder teenage usersDAILYMAIL AUSTRALIA – Apr 11 – Children as young as 13 are using Tinder to brag about how many matches they can get, according to a cyber safety expert Susan McLean. This is not good for a young girl's self-esteem. The other issue is geolocation. Susan McLean said Tinder is dangerous for teenagers given there is no way of verifying the age of the person they are talking to. Legally the children can be on Tinder but it's about educating them to make good decisions', she said. Parents need to have conversations with them about why this is not a good idea.

by Emily Crane
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Single Mother Raised $2M For Her New Company From WhatsYourPrice.com Sugar Daddy

Posted on March 22, 2016

Whatsyourprice logo march 2016DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Mar 23 – Samantha DeFazio joined the controversial dating site WhatsYourPrice.com in 2014. The site allows men to bid on attractive women to go on a date with them. Samantha, who has been paid up to $600 for an evening out, pitched her idea for a luxury taxi service driven by attractive women to her dates. She has received $2M from one of her suitors who was inspired to invest in her app.

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Match.com Co-founder Reveals His Inspiration To Start A Dating Site

Posted on November 23, 2015

Matchcom-In_the_beginning_This_is_a_screen_grab_of_the_first_incarnationDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Nov 20 – Today, 59M people are active subscribers to Match.com or one of its subsidiaries, including Tinder, OkCupid, and POF. Match.com started in 1993, when 30-year-old Stanford graduate Gary Kremen was looking for a date. Starting from scratch, he interviewed ~100 women to find out if they would use an online database – and if not, why not. 'There was definitely much more conservatism around this back then," he said. Fran Maier was tasked to create a female-friendly environment. She tweaked the questions they wanted to ask women, and she worked with a dating expert to design safety guidelines. Later, she would devise the idea of a paid membership. With ~$1.7M angel investment, Match.com launched in April 1995. By Dec 1996, they had ~100K users. Kremen stepped down as CEO in 1996 amid a dispute with investors over his leadership style and his desire to cater for LGBT users.

by Mia de Graaf
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“The Know” App Lets Users Snoop On Their Partners

Posted on October 26, 2015

The know screenshotsDAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Oct 24 – "The Know" app has been designed to discreetly keep tabs on users current partners or get more information about someone they're interested in. To check whether a partner is seeing anyone else, a user uploads that person's details on the app. This can include their name, mobile number, location and physical description among other personal data. The Know searches other profiles for matching criteria.

by Victoria Woollaston
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Tinder Is Killing Romance, Says BBC Historian Lucy Worsley

Posted on October 6, 2015

19313DCE000005DC-0-image-a-31_1444083497914DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Oct 6 – BBC presenter and historian Lucy Worsley says romance is dying out. Dating apps make it easy for couples to enter relationships, and love is being replaced by 'bored singletons looking for one-night stands'. The first episode of A Very British Romance is on Thursday on BBC Four at 9pm.

by Simon Cable
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