Free Online Dating: `I’d rather have love at first sight than love at first e-mail’
`C-T’ reporter didn’t find love in cyberspace The idea of making a friend via computer has always been a foreign concept to me. I use the Internet to talk with friends who live in other states – or friends who sit across the room. I always thought it was impossible to make a friend, or a boyfriend, when all initial contact was purely electronic.But when I moved to upstate New York more than two years ago, I didn’t know any people within a 150 mile…
Free Online Dating: LOVE BLOSSOMS ON THE INTERNET
Never underestimate the allure of a cheap date.Since Miami Beach-based Webdate started offering a free online dating service two years ago, some 2.8 million love-seekers have signed up. The company’s traffic surged 800 percent in 2004, compared to 17 percent for the industry as a whole. And with 8,000 to 10,000 new users signing up daily, Webdate has the fastest-growing black book in the industry.First adopted by the technologically adventurous and socially averse,…
Free Online Dating: Logging on for love
As the time of flowers, secret love messages and candlelit dinners draws near, the Internet race to cash in on that Valentine’s feeling is escalating.In the lead-up to the big day, websites are offering everything from electronic cards, virtual flowers and Valentine’s messageboards, to online proposals and virtual weddings.Electronic cards are perhaps not as sensational as the fading practice of despatching a 6ft padded card through the post (strikes…
Free Online Dating: Web of love
New online site targets singles affiliated with UTEP Meeting your online love connection face to face is made more probable by a new Web site targeting only University of Texas at El Paso singles.The site www.minersingles .com provides a new way for El Paso singles to get a date or meet their mate, depending on how well a preliminary exchange of e-mails goes.UTEP senior Roger Telles welcomes the chance to meet more El Paso women.”In most chat rooms or singles sites,…
Free Online Dating: LOOKING FOR LOVE ONLINE
The World Wide Web is bursting with love. “I’ll send you flowers,” Ted promises at Cupid’s Network, an online dating service. “I am a romantic and outgoing SMW (single white male), continues CN’s former “Man of the Month.” Thanks, Ted, and hold that bouquet. There are oodles of ways to arrange a Valentine’s Day romance online. Serious folks dive into matchmaking via e-mail…