Online Dating Information

Updated March 2010

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Online Dating Links

About.com offers many useful articles on dating and relationships from its dating guide, Bonny Albo. One useful article is "How to Choose An Online Dating Service."

The Oprah.com article "Tips for Successful Online Dating" includes advice on writing a profile, choosing photos to post, creating a user name and more.

Wired magazine publishes the results of a survey conducted by OkCupid.com that looks at what type of email messages are most successful when contacting someone through a dating website.

ConsumerAffairs.com has industry news about lawsuits and creates a forum for consumers to lodge complaints. It's worthwhile to read through recent complaints about specific dating websites before registering.

Quantcast.com provides free demographic information about traffic to websites. By typing in the dating site, you can see a breakdown by gender, age, race, number of kids, household income and education as well as a graph showing the number of visitors by month. Some of the information is estimated, and we can't vouch for its accuracy.

TrueDater.com contains reviews and feedback on online dating profiles and is essentially a watch site for the dating world. Singles can search by user name to see what other user names someone goes by and check whether profiles on other dating sites are accurate.

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