Online Dating or Social Networking?
Do you want to find love online? The obvious way to do that is by using an online dating site. However, a not so obvious way of doing it is by using a social networking service, such as MySpace.
What is a social networking site? It’s a site in which you list yourself, including your details, and you list your friends. Some of your friends put profiles of themselves up, and list their friends. A social network of people is thereby built.
Let’s say you have 20 friends that you decide to list. Most of them think it’s a good idea to do the same, and they list about the same number of people. You can view that list of about 400 people that are the friends of your friends, and maybe you’ll find someone that you might be interested in!
As an alternative technique for getting dates, it’s certainly making a difference. On The Paradigm Shift, Markus Frind, owner of plentyoffish.com, writes that the online dating industry is experiencing negative growth (meaning it’s in decline), and that this is all due to the growth of social networking sites.
Social networking sites could well become the online dating sites of the future. Imagine the situation where you see someone you’d like to get to know better, and you both have a mutual friend. You can ask that friend to set you up with them! Chances are they’ll be nearer home than the typical dating agency person, and meetings arranged by a mutual friend tend to be a very successful approach when it comes to dating. Even if you don’t find love, chances are good that you will make new friends, so your time has not been wasted!
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December 10th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Thanks for sharing. I think you got a good point with MySpace or even Facebook. When signing up sometimes old friends find you, maybe old flames
but its also a great way to meed new people. As you say, you never know what might happen and hopefully not a waste of time.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Here a healthy idea for everyone. Don’t settle for something that is less than what you want. For example, if fear is a big concern to you. Don’t let the fear of being alone influence your choices.
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October 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
that paradigm shift part is something I forgot about. thanks for reminding
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I think social networking sites are great, but the problem with them as a dating tool is that they can be too general, which can easily be avoided on dating sites. I mean, there are tons of specific dating sites that you can join for free, where members’ intentions are out in the open. While in social networking sites, you can still get confused or taken in a different way than you want to be.
January 24th, 2010 at 7:59 am
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March 7th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
If you’re single and you’re willing to try out new avenues to dating then you should try out online dating. It’s definitely fun, less expensive and easier than dating the regular way.
March 13th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Social networking sites becoming the new dating sites would make sense to me.
As outside of the online world, most people meet their partners to be through friends of friends, work colleagues, friends of work mates etc. So this is just an extention of that.