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Spiritual Profile Crucial To Many Seeking Romance

Posted on February 14, 2012

Christian mingleHUFFINGTON POST – Feb 14 – For some people a potential mate’s religious profile is the most important of all. “God has a match for you," claims a Christian dating site called Christian Mingle. Shaadi.com, a site for the South Asian community, breaks it down even further — first between Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and others, and then among caste and background. Statistics seem to support this, with interfaith marriages having a slightly higher rate of ending in divorce. "It's about a baseline of comfort," explained one gay Jewish man who used J-Date in his search for a partner.

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Rochelle Peachey: Transatlantic Matchmaker

Posted on February 10, 2012

Iloveyouraccent logoHUFFINGTON POST – Feb 9 – At age 45, Rochelle Peachey seized the idea that she'd been dreaming about and ran with it. She took to the web and launched ILoveYourAccent.com, a dating site that bridges the continental divide by bringing Brits and Americans together. "I brought in a web designer," she says, "but I didn't have $50,000 to hire a P.R. company. So I started blogging and posting on forums. Just before Valentine's Day, 2010, Rochelle got an invitation to talk about her website on the London TV show BBC Breakfast. "Within 20 minutes of the time I was on the air, people were signing up." Word started to spread, and today ILoveYourAccent.com has 10K members, nine marriages and three babies. Rochelle also finds herself occasionally doubling as a dating coach, interpreting the cultural differences that can sometimes get lost in translation.

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Seeking Love Is Top Resolution For Post 50+

Posted on December 21, 2011

Ourtime logo new August 2011HUFFINGTON POST – Dec 20 - For nearly ~60% of single people over 50, “finding love” is the top New Year’s resolution, according to a survey of members of OurTime.com, the dating site for singles over 50. At 56% of respondents, "Find a Companion" ranked higher than exercising more (34%), reducing stress (29%), saving money/spending less (28%), dieting (20%) and quitting smoking (12%). This is not entirely surprising, since the respondents were members of an online dating site.

by Laura Rowley
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Hispanics Are ‘Fastest Growing Community When It Comes To Infidelity’

Posted on November 11, 2011

Ashleymadison logo new apr 2010HUFFINGTON POST – Nov 11 – According to AshleyMadison.com, the Hispanic community is "the fastest growing community when it comes to infidelity." Since launching the Spanish-language version of their website in 2009, 1.1M Latinos have signed up, accounting for 31% of their total new membership.

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DNA Can Help You Find The Perfect Lover

Posted on November 8, 2011

Genepartner logo newHUFFINGTON POST – Nov 8 - A Swiss company called GenePartner has developed a biological matching system using your human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, genes to find your perfect match. The company works with several dating sites around the world–Sense2love and Eventful Dating to name two–and tests interested people by mail. You get a couple of Q-tips, scrape the inside of your cheek and that of the other party or parties you'd like to have checked, and return it to the company. Later, you receive access to a closed account on the company's website, where you can read at your leisure about how well you supposedly fit together, genetically. The company's total manpower proves to be two women: the director, Joelle Apter, and the head of research, Tamara Brown.

by Lone Frank
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The Business of Breaking Up

Posted on September 14, 2011

Idump4u logo HUFFINGTON POST – Sep 14 – According to a Facebook survey conducted by AreYouInterested.com 25% of people found out their relationship was over when they noticed a change in their significant other's relationship status. 21% of people admitted they would break up with someone by changing their status to "single" on Facebook. The Breakup Notifier helps users track their crushes' changing Facebook relationship status. People log into the app through Facebook, choose the friends for whom they want to get relationship status updates, then just wait for e-mail alerts with the joyous news of a break-up. IDUMP4U.com sells courage and honesty to those who may have trouble severing ties when romance goes south. Users send information about the people they want to break up with and the problems in the relationship to Laborman — then he makes the call and does all the dirty work.

by Julia L. Rogers
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Will Black Online Dating Result in More Marriages?

Posted on August 19, 2011

Blackpeople meet logo nove HUFFINGTON POST – Aug 19 – The U.S. Census says African Americans are the ethnic group least likely to marry. BlackPeopleMeet.com, is the number one personals site among African Americans, according to Nielsen. The site had 410K African-American visitors during June 2011. African Americans also made up 12% of the Match.com audience, BlackPeopleMeet's parent site. "African-American penetration in the online personals category has more than doubled in the last four to five years," says Ron Worthy from BlackPeopleMeet.com.

by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
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College Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ to Pay Off Loan Debt

Posted on August 2, 2011

Sugardaddy seekingarrangement HUFFINGTON POST – July 29 – Saddled with piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy, current college students and recent graduates are selling themselves to pursue a diploma or pay down their loans. "Over the past few years, the number of college students using our site has exploded," says Brandon Wade, founder of SeekingArrangement.com. Of the site's ~800K members, Wade estimates that 35% are students. Wade rewards students who use a .edu email address to register on Seeking Arrangement by automatically upgrading their free, basic membership to a premium membership, allowing them to send unlimited free messages and granting them exclusive access to the site's cadre of VIP sugar daddies. Married men account for ~40% of the site's sugar daddies. Sugar babies outnumber sugar daddies by a ratio of nearly 10 to 1. Noel Biderman, founder and CEO of Avid Life Media, runs a number of arrangement-seeking sites. On one such site, EstablishedMen.com, Biderman estimates that 47% of its 1.3M members are women currently enrolled in college. And on ArrangementSeekers.com, he says 31% of its 387,000 members are female college students.

by Amanda M. Fairbanks
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Meet People Less Awkwardly with Grouper

Posted on July 11, 2011

Grouper screenshot HUFFINGTON POST – July 9 – Grouper is a social service that gets you offline, and out meeting real people. Grouper, which is currently only available in New York City, matches groups of three girls with three boys, by looking at interests, ages and more. The service matches online information from your Facebook profile with a human matchmaker looking to get you talking to strangers. To get Groupered, users can go to the site and connect with Facebook to apply. Once they are connected, they answer three questions, with the same 140-character restriction on responses as Twitter. The user who signed up brings two friends to the meetup. Grouper charges $20 per person and picks the location of the meeting place, as well as providing the first round of drinks for free. Users pay online beforehand and list the times they'd be available to meet.

by Amy Lee
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The Business of Love

Posted on June 30, 2011

Idate2011 HUFFINGTON POST – June 29 - "Worldwide, ~122M people monthly log into dating sites with 14M people using mobile dating services," said Mark Brooks, publisher of Online Personals Watch. The business of love and these statistics from Comscore were discussed in detail at the Internet Dating Conference recently held in Beverly Hills. Location based or not, everyone needs a mobile dating strategy. "We're seeing 2.5 times more activity on mobile than on the web because it's easy to wink and flirt on the go" said Robinne Burrell, Director of Mobile Products at Match.com. Match reports 10-15% of their new subscribers are coming from mobile with 56% of singles aged 25-54 going mobile.

by Julie Spira
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