How to Get a Date Online (that doesn’t suck) + Web 2.0 2010 Industry Forecast
December 27, 2009 by admin
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Birds actually know how to mate. Dating sites are for people who can’t get a date in any other way. You may hate me for saying so, but if you haven’t gone out on a date inspite of your willingness to do so, you’re sad and pathetic.
Even birds know how to mate. They fly to the right elevation for their species, fly around the right tree for their physiology, and start showing off. Male birds will compete with each other, often violently, and the fittest wins.
Hmm. In retrospect, I don’t know about the title so much. o_O
In a pride of lions, the same thing happens. The lion with the biggest kill gets the most fertile lioness. The males show off their social prowess. Females challenge suitors to see if they can do better.
If you are the best student in school, mvp on your team, most entrepreneurial in your industry, you can take your pick of the litter. And that pick of the litter can see if she can’t do better.
Trouble is, with computers and the information super highway and such, we’ve lost much of our social skills. In LA, barflies converse. In NYC, they philosophize. In Seattle, women sit together in far corner tables to avoid any potential conversational challenges.
So for the sake of my social (read: sex) life when in Seattle, I joined Match.com.
It’s loaded full of women who have nothing in common with me at all except that one crucial mating pre-requisite: None of us can get a date.
Hence, my prediction for 2010: Dating websites that match people up based on religion and 49 dimensions of meaningless data that only increases the likelihood that you are NOT INcompatible, niche social sites will pop up everywhere.
Dating and mating will not be the overt nor obvious selling point.
Social Networks of people who actually work and produce in the same industries will start popping up like ning.com but the profile fields will include: “single or married,” “bike ride or long walks on the beach.” The new profile fields in any “professional” social site will somehow require THIS:
So just start your own. If you can’t be the king of the hill on somebody else’s mountain, build your own mountain. I did: http://koreanovernight.com/friends .. OR join koreanovernight.com/friends… and be one of the first people there. Either way, you’ll have some high credibility when the new social network goes big.
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“They fly to the right elevation for their species, fly around the right tree for their physiology, and start showing off.”
Always be sure to fly around the right tree and elevation for you, or else, you’ll end up wondering: “why do I always get the same type of nagging people in my life”?
Ask yourself: what’s my elevation and physiology?
Good comments. I was always too embarrassed to go on dating sites. However, I never seemed to lack for an opportunity for dates before I started working at home by myself, many times was unwillingly just beccause I didn’t feel like it. Dating has lost its fun for me and many others I know. It’s just the problem of future expectations and planning ahead in the mind that goes on during the date that ruins what should be fun, not work and eventually leads to the relationship ending. I understand that problem, of getting out of the moment and not going with the flow, however, it is hard to find too many others that don’t get trapped wondering where this is headed or worried about “what ifs” and playing mind games. Oh well, it’s a game that you just have to play, I suppose, and I for one hate trying to change people’s minds. No wonder even attractive men go to hookers. However, that website you mentioned, might be a good one. Still, bookstores, and friends of friends are good ways to get hooked up.