You’ve chosen several photos from your online dating service and sent out your personal online profile. Now you are waiting for the replies to start rolling in. You wait a few days, and nothing. You start to feel as though you should go back to the bars, at least the rejection there is face to face. What could have gone wrong?

First of all, these people don’t know you, so you can’t realistically take a lack of response too personally. Often users of online dating services have a stack of profiles next to their computer and take their time returning emails, so don’t get discouraged.

The worst mistake you can make is contacting people over and over. This can turn them off and give the impression that you are a stalker, some dating services online will cancel your membership or censure you if they receive reports of continuous attempts to contact ( as well they should. Remember, they don’t know your motives any more than you know anyone else’s when online.)

Another online dating tip is to contact as many people that have an interesting profile as possible. If you only contact two or three, and then wait weeks for a reply, of course you’re going to get frustrated, but if you send contact emails to 20 different people, chances are you will receive several replies. Again, do not take it personally! There are hundreds of free online dating sites to choose from, and those are just the free ones. I have a personal confidence in sites like eHarmony and Match.com though. It’s always been my personal belief that you get what you pay for. If you are joining free dating sites – then what message is that sending? If you are willing to pay for a quality service – you might have better luck in meeting your match.

If you are continuously getting rejection emails (I don’t mean lack of replies, but true, actual rejections) maybe the problem is your profile. Recheck it and see what it says about you. Is it honest and sincere? Did you send your best picture? Does it sound too needy or too non committal?

There are lots of services that offer to help with putting together the perfect profile. I even have an offer to critique or rewrite your personal ad – based on years of working in the online dating industry, I’ve got a pretty good handle on what works and what doesn’t – I’m always happy to provide tips to help people find love.

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This week, Match.com is celebrating 15 years of helping singles find love online with survey results confirming their position as a leader in the industry.

Match.com recently completed a study of 11,000 people over a five year period, which concluded that one in six marriages took place between people who met through an online dating site. That comes out to 17% of couples who married during this period.

The Chadwick Martin Bailey study on online dating trends looked at three areas: Marriage, Online Dating, and a General Survey.

“The world has changed,” said Greg Blatt, CEO of Match.com. “We get married older, we work longer hours, we move around more, we’re generally busier. These changes have put pressure on the way we traditionally have met our significant others. Luckily, with these changes has come an increasing openness to doing new things. Online dating has grown so much in part as a response to these societal changes, having become the third most important way we meet our significant others, even though it didn’t even exist 15 years ago.”

Match.com launched on April 21, 1995. The original membership was only $9.95/month. Currently a one-month membership to Match runs $34.99. According to Match, more than 20,000 singles register on their site in the U.S. every single day.

The Match Online Dating survey conducted by Chadwick Martin Bailey shows a definite shift where more singles are meeting their spouses online than at bars, social clubs, and churches or places of worship.

The Match study also revealed that members have gone on twice as many dates as members of other online dating sites.

Match launched Match Mobile last year and recently added an Android application to their service offerings.

Today, everyone knows someone who has met a romantic interest online. Do you?

In fact, I met my love of over a year online – my mother and stepfather met online and have been married for 10 years. I know it can happen, because I’ve seen it and lived it!

To read details of their findings, visit Match.com

History has shown that in times of crisis, whether it’s a plunge in the stock market, a devastating earthquake, hurricane Katrina, or something as epic as September 11th, people tend to turn to dating sites in times of need.

The stock market crash of 1998 is a perfect example of this. Some dating sites reported as much as three times as many new memberships than usual on September 29th when the stock market fell 700 points. It was the best single day in their entire history. According to Gian Gonzaga, senior research scientist at eHarmony, "It makes a lot of sense. People seek out companionship in times of stress. Studies repeatedly show that being in a relationship can help a person’s psychological and physical health."

Online dating services like PerfectMatch.com and Match.com say that the bad economy is resulting in increased growth and paid memberships for people looking for love.  Match.com announced this month that November was its strongest month for memberships in more than seven years.

"During these trying times, people are looking for hope in their inbox and they are finding it on Match.com," says Thomas Enraght-Moony, CEO of Match.com.

Match.com is one of the largest online dating services, with more than 15 million current members.

During the mid-summer to early fall time of increasingly high gas prices, mass layoffs, and banking scandals, online dating service PerfectMatch saw a 47% increase in memberships for its dating service.

A poll done by Opinion Research Corp. also found that younger, single people who were stressed about the economy and its impact were more likely to seek out a relationship.

As an industry, no one hopes for bad things to happen, but in the end, it is good for the bottom line.

Are you considering jumping in the online dating pool to find love? Perhaps you’ve already taken that plunge and have your own experiences to share?

OnlineSchools has compiled some statistics surrounding online dating that offers a glimpse into the world of internet romance.

A few revealing Online Dating highlights:

• One out of ten users on online dating sites are scammers; one out of ten users leave within the first 3 months; and one out of ten sex offenders reportedly use online dating to meet people.
• One out of three women who meet men online have sex on the first encounter.
• Men lie about age, height, income. Women lie about weight, physical build, age.
• The Average length of courtship for marriage of couples who met online – 18.5 months – of couples who met offline – 42 months

There are websites, which are primarily created to connect singles over the internet. These sites use terms like online dating and dating online to draw single people to their sites to connect with other singles.

In reality, what does the term online dating really mean, do you think is it possible to date someone online? Can someone have a healthy dating life when it only exists on the internet? Is it possible to truly know someone if you’ve only known them through online dates and does this count as a ‘real’ date?

Humans have a desire for companionship and at some point in our life time we all seek to find it. In years past there were (Mail Order Brides), this concept of finding a mate is still in use men can go online and find a bride from another country. There are couples from other countries that never see each other until the actual wedding. So whether you consider meeting someone online as a pen pal or online dating that is entirely up to you.

There are those that think finding a mate online is taboo. In actuality when you join a singles online dating site you are given the opportunity to find out anything you want to know about a person, before you actually meet. All you need to know is where they went to school and where they work then go online and do your own search and you will know all about them.

Generally, dating online usually refers to the process of meeting people for potential dates online, or through an internet dating service. The online dating services usually provide some help and guidance in matching members that are the most suitable for one another. You are at liberty to look for suitable matches for online dating on these sites as well.

Online dating services act as an arena for individual singles to come together and find other people interested in pursuing the same types of relationships. It is up to the individual to use caution before giving out to much information about them self.

There are thousands of lonely people and people that do not have time to go out into public to find a mate. These people find online dating sites are there answer to finding the right person for themselves.

Luvdoo, a London based development partnership launches Luvtweets, a Twitter based dating service. Luvtweets allows users to define themselves in their own terms; using a user defined tagging system rather than the traditional pre-defined criteria of mainstream dating sites. FULL ARTICLE

A psychologist-researcher and psychoanalyst has developed a comprehensive model of love relations that is to be used on the new Internet matchmaking site, RewardingLove.com (TM) http://www.RewardingLove.com). The model is based on research from evolutionary psychology, personality temperaments and traits, early attachment, family dynamics, cultural and societal beliefs. FULL ARTICLE @ PRNEWSWIRE

According to a recent survey conducted by Woome.com, nearly 3 out of 4 single online adults(1) (72 percent) find flirting online more difficult than in person, citing the inability to observe body language, gauge chemistry and assess physical appearance as major contributing factors.

61 percent of single adults say looks are most likely to attract them to someone within the first minute of an introduction.

Only 17 percent said they thought sense of humor was most important and an even lower nine percent said they value intelligence most. And ironically, less than one in three single adults (31 percent) who have an online profile(2) regularly update the picture on their social network or online dating site profile(s).

I would think the fact that people don’t update their image as often could lead to a great hesitation in contacting those you might normally be interested in.  Sometimes you have to wonder if the photo is new, old, how old and if it’s even them.

While online dating can be a wonderful avenue to meeting love interests – you really do have to kiss a lot of toads before you find your prince(ss) whatever the case may be.

source: Street Insider

PR NEWSWIRE — According to research by a new online photo verification site, http://www.CheckedProfile.com, over 80% of online daters have suspected that the profile images being used online are fakes and over a third have actually discovered that a person’s identity does not match that of their online persona.

http://www.CheckedProfile.com is a new service that was launched in the US.

CheckedProfile.com works really simply with the following 5 steps:

1. You upload the profile picture that you would like to be verified
2. The site gives you a unique code
3. Take another picture of yourself holding the unique code (akin to holding up a copy of today’s newspaper)
4. One of CheckedProfile.com’s experts immediately checks that both images are the same person
5. If successful, you are given a unique stamp which you can upload onto any website (not just dating specific, e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc.)

Complete Article @ PR Newswire