Sunday, 15 July 2012
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One Chance a Day?
A new dating site takes away the browsing of potential matches and the awkwardness of the vague inbox message, in favor of a "Deal of the Day" approach to dating. The new site matches each person with one other person, who then has a 24-hour-window to accept or reject the pairing. Mutually accepted dates are offered two-person coupons, which gives a nice little location the blooming pair might meet at. Since the coupons and site ads generate revenue instead of registered users, this site is free.Two problems spring to mind... the obvious one, of a mismatch between users. Dating sites average ratios of men to women somewhere on the order of 7:1... does that mean the men get one match a week, and the women get one per day? Or perhaps a female gets seven matches a day, and the males one.
The second is the lack of interest in any but the easiest way. Maybe searching through profiles for your potential mate revealed a bit about yourself, along the way... and also made you put a little bit of effort into finding someone. Do we really want that to be too easy?
What are your thoughts on this approach to online dating?Original story linked here.
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it would be cute to have different types of bagel and bagel spreads along with a drink, and let the users send them as "e-lunch" gifts to each other(sort of like xanga minis) then I'll judge them based on the type of bagel and drink combo they send me. it'll be cool if they have a program so you can dress up your bagel like a paperdoll and drag & drop stuff to add flavor to your bagel
then have a bagel contest. I might decide to meet the bagel champion decorator
then we get matching his & her bagel shirts. I really want plush bagel slippers
I'm more excited at the fantasy bagel store that I just conjured up and buying cute stuff from the everything bagel online gift shop than dating. I'll take the bagels. forget him
source on 7:1 ratio? i find that *very* difficult to believe.
What is the name of the site?
@valeriebeth04@xanga - omg coffeemeetsBAGEL dot com
It's like speed-dating. Which is a fun way to meet people, and can be a good way, but there's not really a "right" way. Especially when it comes to online dating. The possibilities are endless! The ratio problem would take some thinking through, but there's another problem - what if someone stops using their site? Or skips a day? Could they look at previous matches that they failed to respond to? Would the site keep matching them even if they hadn't logged in for months?
Well, in this day
and age, it is not only heterosexuals who look for relationships online on
dating websites, thus the ratio of mismatched users could actually be lower.
Personally, I think this new concept perfectly suits busy working
professionals who may not have the time to sit and sieve through thousands of
member profiles. Although this new concept helps them however, it still does
not guarantee that they will meet someone suitable.
@TheNotoriousGOD@xanga - I asked that same question!
@mkz@xanga - yeah, he didn't answer after a few days, so i did a brief search and didn't come up with anything legitimate. sounds like an urban legend to me.