04th April 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
Not long ago, I ran across a provocative video featuring MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist. Her remarks in the video were about higher education, rather than online dating, but her observations have im...
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23rd March 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
As the world of online dating has evolved, the natural result has been for the clever to get cleverer and the frustrated to become more frustrated. I read an article a while back that suggested that writers of profile...
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21st March 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
In his post of January 18, 2011, "Cheating Is in Our DNA," Charles Orlando distinguishes between two "flavors" of infidelity: the "fling" as in the one-night stand and the affair, which he characterizes as a long-term re...
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28th February 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
You don't have to spend much time snooping around online dating sites and blogs before cheating in some form comes up. Our fascination with it ranks up there with earthquakes, war and assassination attempts on government...
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05th February 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
So let's just say that at some point, online dating seemed like a good idea. You thought it was a valid (perhaps even best) approach to meeting Mr. Right. All your due diligence suggested where and how you live made on...
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04th February 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
When we post an online dating profile, we do so to excite interest and move the reader of it to contact us. By email, by instant message. In effect, they are self-promotional "marketing" pieces...some shamelessly so. ...
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04th February 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Dirk Sayers
I'm going to strenuously resist the temptation to shoot the messenger, on this one. Ms. Stephanie Rosenbloom writing for The New York Times online posted an article dated Dec 18, 2010 entitled "New Online-Date Detectives...
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19th January 2011
Copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Sayers
I ran across a post on an online dating site, the other day, entitled "Why You Should Lie In Your Online Dating Profile." No kidding. In the interests of full credit for work done, Russ Ruggles is the author. Google it...
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20th December 2010
Copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Sayers
Not too long ago, I ran across a post on a dating blog, titled "Cheating at Online Dating." Before you jump to conclusions, no: it isn't what you think. It deals, interestingly enough, with keeping track of guys that ...
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06th December 2010
Copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Sayers
I ran across a blog post today that raised this very issue. In the post, guest author Sam (AKA Financial Samurai) describes a friend's efforts in (San Francisco) to develop an online dating profile. He notes that the pa...
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24th November 2010
Copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Sayers
I ran across a gem the other day on an online dating blog, entitled "Reconnecting with Your Old Boyfriend." I should acknowledge up-front that the premise of the article runs counter to my own philosophy. Over my years ...
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17th November 2010
Copyright (c) 2010 Dirk Sayers
AOL recently posted an article written by Redacted Guy, writing for Lemon Drop online. In it, he took exception to the conventional wisdom that rebound relationships are always bad. He suggests that rebound relationship...
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