Parship free communications weekend

I just got an email saying Parship.co.uk are offering free full use of the site this weekend, until Sunday.
OK, so they are not calling it a free communications weekend, as that’s what eHarmony call theirs, but it’s basically the same thing. You can even exchange pictures with people for free, which is a novelty on Parship.

Add comment November 27th, 2009

Dating – don’t just keep it online

Online dating is all well and good, but limiting your social life to online interaction will do you no favours. For many people, it takes a while before all those profile searches, winks and messages turn into actual dates. So in the meantime you should be looking at additional ways of getting yourself out of the house and into social situations where you will meet new people.

Continue Reading Add comment November 25th, 2009

Online dating news for this week

A weekly roundup of some online dating stories and offers from around the Internet and the world, as well as my own commentary, of course. This week – an offer from eHarmony, a new iPhone app and some new online dating research.

Continue Reading Add comment November 20th, 2009

Dating profile: faking it won’t make it

A good profile in itself is not enough to make your online dating experience successful. The truth is, with the right advice and support it’s not very difficult at all to come up with a profile that portrays you as someone most men or women would want to date. But if all those things you take out of the profile were originally put there because of your state of mind, baggage, fears or bitterness, then the thin screen provided by the profile won’t be enough to carry you through the whole dating process.

Continue Reading 2 comments November 12th, 2009

Are online relationships more disposable?

I had an interesting discussion recently with someone who’d tried online dating and was disappointed. She said she’d been taken aback by people’s habit of continuing to search for more matches online even after they’d been on a seemingly good date.

To her, this implied that people did not take online dating seriously enough – as if relationships formed online were more “disposable”.

There’s already been much discussion about how online dating has changed relationships, but my take on it is different than the above. With the main attraction of online dating often being the sheer number of eligible singles you can meet, it’s not hard to understand why people may not want to settle on the first person they meet. Sure, there are players and casual daters who set out to find one person after another, but those searching for a husband or a wife have even more of a vested interest in being choosy.

Personally, I believe that relationships that follow a period of active dating can actually end up being stronger and more meaningful, as there wouldn’t be a question of whether one person settled for the other.

Of course, if someone is successful at dating online, the temptation can always be there to try for someone better, any time something seems to go wrong in the relationship they’re in – actually making relationships “disposable”.

Have you experienced this? If so, please leave a comment.

2 comments November 2nd, 2009