Online Dating Advice
Psychologist Calls Out eHarmony! "UCLA Professors Say eHarmony Is Unscientific and its Customers Are 'Duped'" adding to Dr. Paul's contention that there is nothing better or magical about online dating services.
OKCupid's Online Dating Advice Of the online dating advice for optimizing your profile, your picture, and how you respond, the posts by the people at OKCupid are probably the best you'll find. For instance, you can't change your basic looks, but a photo of you with a real camera as opposed to a cellphone photo is probably going to look better; and the people at OKCupid have found that a photo of you where a flash isn't used is liable to look more inviting than one where a flash is used, assuming you have good ambient light.
Sleeping Around Craigslist Two middle-aged women discover that casual sex can be anything but casual.
I Can't Believe I'm Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating It's unfortunate that the author and his publisher haven't been able to figure out a way to release an updated second edition, but this is still about the best basic book you can find on online dating. Highly recommended alone for its advice on how to write an effective profile, which is absolutely key to success of any kind.
Craigslist's Casual Encounters: Advice for Guys Looking for Women Writer Samuel Axon does an excellent job of explaining what it's like being a male on Craigslist who is looking for a female. Given the extremely poor odds for straight guys on Craigslist, it will require a lot of patience and perseverance.
UC Berkeley's Online Relationship Lab Read the research findings on online dating from the top researchers on the subject. Then appreciate how useless most of the findings of the studies are.
Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column First, the author's name really is H.G. "Harry" Cocks. He's a university professor in the UK. More importantly, there's nothing like a bit of historical perspective to, well, put things into perspective. Today's online dating is simply an extension of the old "personals ad," which has a rich and fascinating history, and actually was quite dangerous to place in centuries past.
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