This is from the match.com faq:
Q. How do I purchase the Make Love Happen Guarantee program?
A. It's easy! Simply subscribe today and choose the six-month Love package. To learn more about the program, please read our program rules. If you have not met someone special after 6 months and followed all the program rules, you will qualify for the Love extension at no additional expense to you.
Q. What's included in the six-month Love package?
Q. What's included in the six-month Love package?
A. The six-month Love package provides all the benefits that Subscribers to the Match.com service receive as part of a six-month subscription. See Match.com Terms of Use for details. Additional features like MindFindBind™ and MatchTalk™ are available at an additional cost, and you will continue to be billed for any features you add to your subscription, even during a free extension of your subscription under the Make Love Happen program. See Match.com FAQ and How It Works for further details about additional features you can enjoy during your subscription.
MindFindBind???
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Adult Dating Site
I'm trying a new tack. Since last weekend I've been on Adult Friend Finder. I went on for a few different reasons. The most obvious one hardly bears mentioning. But I found some interesting things once I started reading the profiles. Quite a few just have a little textspeak essentially demanding shags like, NOW. But quite a few other people are looking for a wide variety of things. Relationships of one kind or another where sex is an important part, but not all and not just once or twice.
This is a big change from the marriage-driven approach you see on the dotdating corporate sites I've been looking at. Yes, in the end I expect to get some good no strings attached shagging out of this. But I may well find some other interesting experiences along the way.
I think at least that this site is more honest about what it offers. People looking to simply hook up. Interestingly, the fact that it drops all the corporate cleanliness means people's profiles are much more honest and liberated. And interesting to read. No more of the endless 'I like going out and staying in with a bottle of red wine and a DVD' lines.
This is a big change from the marriage-driven approach you see on the dotdating corporate sites I've been looking at. Yes, in the end I expect to get some good no strings attached shagging out of this. But I may well find some other interesting experiences along the way.
I think at least that this site is more honest about what it offers. People looking to simply hook up. Interestingly, the fact that it drops all the corporate cleanliness means people's profiles are much more honest and liberated. And interesting to read. No more of the endless 'I like going out and staying in with a bottle of red wine and a DVD' lines.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Your Face May Tell People What Kind Of Relationship You Seek
Your Face May Tell People What Kind Of Relationship You Seek
Whether you are looking for a long-term relationship or just a one-night stand may be written on your face for others to read, say researchers from Durham University (England), St. Andrews University (Scotland) and Aberdeen University (Scotland).
You can read about this study in Evolution and Human Behaviour.
Apparently, a man who has a large nose, small eyes and a square jaw gives out signals of being the type of person who would prefer a short-term encounter, rather than love. According to women, men with softer features are more likely to be after a long-term relationship.
Even though researchers found that men do seem able to identify women who are fancy-free, they could not specific which particular part of the face was responsible for this.
The study involved 700 young heterosexual adults, all in their twenties.
In one of the studies involving 153 people, 72% of them were able to identify accurately the sexual attitudes of men and women just by looking at photographs of their faces.
Women who seek short-term sexual relationships generally have wide eyes and large lips - men tend to find these types of women more attractive.
Men who give the appearance of preferring a long-term relationship are more sought after by women, the study found. The more 'masculine' a man is the less likely he is to be faithful and a good parent, women tend to think - this finding agrees with those of previous studies.
Surprisingly, both men and women generally go for people who are the opposite of themselves.
Team member, Dr. Lynda Bothered, Durham University, said that the initial impressions we get from looking at a person's face could be part of how we assess potential mates (or rivals) when we fist meet them. "These will then give way over time to more in-depth knowledge of that person as you get to know them better, and may change with age," Bothered added.
"Facial correlates of sociosexuality"
Lynda G. Boothroyd, Benedict C. Jones, D. Michael Burt, Lisa M. DeBruine, David I. Perrett
Evolution & Human Behavior - 27 March 2008 (10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.12.009)
Click here to view abstract online
Written by - Christian Nordqvist
Copyright: Medical News Today
Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today
Whether you are looking for a long-term relationship or just a one-night stand may be written on your face for others to read, say researchers from Durham University (England), St. Andrews University (Scotland) and Aberdeen University (Scotland).
You can read about this study in Evolution and Human Behaviour.
Apparently, a man who has a large nose, small eyes and a square jaw gives out signals of being the type of person who would prefer a short-term encounter, rather than love. According to women, men with softer features are more likely to be after a long-term relationship.
Even though researchers found that men do seem able to identify women who are fancy-free, they could not specific which particular part of the face was responsible for this.
The study involved 700 young heterosexual adults, all in their twenties.
In one of the studies involving 153 people, 72% of them were able to identify accurately the sexual attitudes of men and women just by looking at photographs of their faces.
Women who seek short-term sexual relationships generally have wide eyes and large lips - men tend to find these types of women more attractive.
Men who give the appearance of preferring a long-term relationship are more sought after by women, the study found. The more 'masculine' a man is the less likely he is to be faithful and a good parent, women tend to think - this finding agrees with those of previous studies.
Surprisingly, both men and women generally go for people who are the opposite of themselves.
Team member, Dr. Lynda Bothered, Durham University, said that the initial impressions we get from looking at a person's face could be part of how we assess potential mates (or rivals) when we fist meet them. "These will then give way over time to more in-depth knowledge of that person as you get to know them better, and may change with age," Bothered added.
"Facial correlates of sociosexuality"
Lynda G. Boothroyd, Benedict C. Jones, D. Michael Burt, Lisa M. DeBruine, David I. Perrett
Evolution & Human Behavior - 27 March 2008 (10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.12.009)
Click here to view abstract online
Written by - Christian Nordqvist
Copyright: Medical News Today
Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Cancellation Message on Match.com
They asked for one, so I gave it. The question was, 'Can you suggest a way we can make it easier to find love?'
You can't. Finding love has never been easy and it has never been done in writing. Imagine Romeo and Juliet on match.com. Never would have happened. Romeo would have taken one look at her profile, figured she was from the family of his enemies and that would have been that. Of course he would have been better off....
The important things that happen between people do not involve words and can not be preceded by words, especially written ones. I suspect that the whole concept of online dating as it exists on these sites is either doomed to fail altogether or else likely to replace the old romantic notions of love with serial dating. Perhaps, like our online Romeo, we'll all be better off that way.
Anyway, the damn thing doesn't expire till July, so I guess I still have time to 'make love happen'.
You can't. Finding love has never been easy and it has never been done in writing. Imagine Romeo and Juliet on match.com. Never would have happened. Romeo would have taken one look at her profile, figured she was from the family of his enemies and that would have been that. Of course he would have been better off....
The important things that happen between people do not involve words and can not be preceded by words, especially written ones. I suspect that the whole concept of online dating as it exists on these sites is either doomed to fail altogether or else likely to replace the old romantic notions of love with serial dating. Perhaps, like our online Romeo, we'll all be better off that way.
Anyway, the damn thing doesn't expire till July, so I guess I still have time to 'make love happen'.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Dot Dating Corporations
Like any other business, dot dating corporations seek to capitalise on something. It would seem these guys capitalise on people's natural need to get together with partners, to get married in whatever form that takes. People desire that, the companies provide it.
Sometimes, though, I can't help feeling that actually they capitalise on people's hopes that the old way isn't fading out of existence.
Sometimes, though, I can't help feeling that actually they capitalise on people's hopes that the old way isn't fading out of existence.
The Written Intro
Every corporate dot dating site provides you with a text field for entering a 'long' description of yourself the indexing, searching and ultimate reading of which is supposed to be superior to the 'old-fashioned' ways in which people used to meet each other.
I have found over the years that it is damn hard at best to meet people with these things. There are so many qualities that just don't come across in spoken words, much less written ones.
How many people do you meet at a party for example by exchanging what amounts to a knowing glance? I can think of several different times in my life when I just looked at a woman and somehow we knew something was going to happen because of the way she was simultaneously looking at me. And I don't just mean fucking here.
Now what is the written equivalent of that?
I have found over the years that it is damn hard at best to meet people with these things. There are so many qualities that just don't come across in spoken words, much less written ones.
How many people do you meet at a party for example by exchanging what amounts to a knowing glance? I can think of several different times in my life when I just looked at a woman and somehow we knew something was going to happen because of the way she was simultaneously looking at me. And I don't just mean fucking here.
Now what is the written equivalent of that?
Friday, April 4, 2008
A Dating Site for Cheating Married People
Studies indicate up to 30% of those people using on-line dating services are married. Why not join a site specifically designed for you? With marriedsecrets.com, there's:
- No excuses
- No explanations
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