Online dating sites can be daunting. Between setting up the perfect profile and then trying to meet your dream partner from profiles of hundreds of thousands of people on each site (or on some of the more popular sites like Match....

Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might, profiles, match quotients, and algorithms can’t do nearly what even a few minutes of face-to-fa...

When we meet a potential love interest in person, we're taught t...

Far be it for us to advise you on what makes a good online dating profile work, because all along we thought SKIN IS IN. Actually, we are right! According to a survey of profiles from OKCupid.com, guys who show off their abs are mor...

If you think online dating profiles with self-shot camera-phone pictures that scream "Check out my MySpace!" look ridiculous, well, you are probably right, but, according to a statistical study by the dating site OKCupid, these comi...

(Online Dating Industry Journal) Online Dating Magazine columnist, Dr. James Houran, will be on the Dr. Laura Berman show Monday at 5pm EST / 2pm PST. Dr. Laura Berman is a popular book author and radio host for Oprah Radio.... ...

A new online dating service called Gelato is based on the notion that your life stream could be the way to find love online. Rather than relying on static (and often woefully outdated) profiles that people post, Gelato taps into you...

A new online dating service called Gelato wants to match users based on their social profiles around the Web.

September 29, 2009Posted by Jay LivingstonLisa at Sociological Images linked to some in-house research reported on the blog of OK Cupid , an online dating site. I assume that OK works like Match.com – you look at people’s profiles;...

Online profiles with less info garner more interest ...

17 ONLINE DATING PROFILE CLICHES for women to avoid. Why women? The author of the linked post — who, full disclosure, is my older son — has not spent time perusing the profiles of men.

They're not quite as juicy and revealing as some of the Nerve.com online dating profiles I've seen heard about over the years, but these new blurbs about nine senior staff members in the Duncan inner circle include some tidbits you ...

I got a chuckle from this BlogHer piece by a single, childless woman who admits she closes all online profiles of guys who have 2 or more children. She raised all kinds of interesting scenarios, including the double standard betwee...

(Online Dating Industry Journal - April 1, 2009) It was bound to happen sooner or later... a new online dating service for CEOs who received government bailout money launched today. And they already have three CEOs with profiles. Th...

Dr. John Grohol sums up the findings of a new (not very robust) study about online dating. It seems that we aren't very good at evaluating thousands of profiles: The more our brains have to search through, the more difficult...

"I Want You To Want Me" Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art for their "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition Mining data from online dating profiles, Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar have creat...

Everything you always didn't want to know about excessive shaving, plus bad online dating profiles and friends who love hookers....

Earlier this year, we covered WooMe, an initiative that attempted to move online dating away from written profiles and communication, instead offering instant speed dates conducted via webcam. As of September 2008, the San Francisco...

For people who are either considering online dating or are already involved in online dating, lying is a big concern. There are plenty of stories, each more frightening than the last, about first dates gone terribly wrong when the o...

Here is a common mistake a lot of people make in their online dating profiles: They have a photo.  One.  Single.  Photo. Almost all online dating sites give you space, or a “backstage” photo gallery, where you can usually add at lea...