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| A Brief History Of Online Dating |
By:
Paul Burke |
The introduction and singles dating industry is not new. In fact, dating and
singles clubs have been around for many years. Bob Hope said in the early
1950's, "I once sent my photograph to a Lonely Hearts club and they sent it
back saying, thanks but we are not that lonely". The Lonely Hearts club image
lasted nearly as long as Bob Hope himself and was the butt of many comedians'
jokes, which gave the dating industry an image that only desperate and lonely
people join such clubs.
The internet has changed many things and nowhere has it had a larger impact
than with the dating industry. Online dating websites started to bring a
younger audience to the dating and singles matchmaking industry, where these
systems would conveniently email you people in your area who were also
looking to meet other single people. The fact that these early sites, as many
poor quality sites still do today, would simply collect as many photographs
as possible and send them to you, would frequently result in you opening your
email only to have a photo staring out at you that could scare a police horse.
The better quality online dating sites such as chancetomeet.com, have highly
developed searches and tools such as "connect phrases" to help you find the
right person. There is good evidence that the sites that charge for
membership have a much higher quality of contact, with the more you pay the
more serious the member. Free sites or sites that charge a nominal amount
tend to attract the "one night stand" end of the market and tend to have page
after page of contacts that you have to trawl through with little or no
information about that person, apart from the fact they like holidays, nice
people and watching the X factor, with dislikes of people who bring an axe on
the first date!
The future of online dating, whether you are looking for the chance to meet a
long term partner, or maybe looking for something more casual, does seem to
be assured, as the high divorce rate and number of people staying single
looks set to continue globally in the years to come.
However, things are about to change in the future of online dating, just as
dating changed with the advent of the internet. Only this time it may be even
more of a revolution, as computers get faster along with Internet connection
speeds. These advances will bring more exciting ways to date and meet people
as social networking sites have recently shown. As computer graphics improve,
we will see Virtual reality start to become the norm in online dating.
Chancetomeet.com has been developing technologies in this area ready to take
advantage of faster computing power and are preparing to launch these new
services in the near future. To keep up to date why not register for free at
www.chancetomeet.com and who knows what the future may bring. |
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