Well, it's been a bit more than a month since my last 'thoughts' on the concept of dating...
There's a smell of spring in the air, and I'm seeing more people taking a practical approach to the "I'm still single" paradigm.
They tried online dating.
While I haven't seen the results yet, I decided to investigate the idea myself, and do a bit of scouting of the various website first.
Well... let's just say it's a bit overwhelming... I'm up to 26 links now, and still counting...
I won't list all the sites here (they are on del.icio.us anyway: http://del.icio.us/ve2dmn/dating ), but I did notice a couple of interesting site that are out of the ordinary:
Flirting in Traffic is the most bizarre one. You make an account, and they give you an ID tag to put on your car. Anyone who finds you interesting can note the ID and try to contact you online. It's kind of a reverse online dating thing...
PodDater is another strange one. You make a video of yourself, and than people can download the video to their IPods (or any other movie-capable portable media player), like a TV dating service. You can subscribe to it, like a podcast.
On the same idea as PodDater, VerbDate is a dating site made to connect 2 people via voice chat, you can have a sort of phone date.
Than, there's Engage.com , where people vote for who should meet whom. Kind of an interesting concept.
Then there's the free sites:
OkCupid seems to be a very popular one. You can take a test that will then evaluate who you will possibly be most compatible with, based on common answers...
PlentyOfFish is another big free one. Seems basic, but has been going on for a couple of years now...
These are all probably just fine, but none of these would actually work around here, because of how English-centric they are. No French equivalent means it automatically disqualify more than half of the local resident...
Because, in the end, If there isn't a critical mass, it will simply fail...
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