Today I am back to reviewing the online dating sites with the focus on Perfectmatch.com’s Duet. Their claims on the website are as per below:
“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.” James Stephens
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Today I tried OkCupid.com’s relationship assessment - it was quick, easy & had very interesting questions that I have not seen in other assessments. The results are stereotypes & very general. This assessment is obviously focused on fun rather than genuine matching. Also, I would question some of reasoning & logic behind their assessment with questions such as:
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Today I am going to review Match.com‘s site Chemistry Relationship Profile Assessment. I did their assessment a few years ago when researching this business & tried it again today. I am amazed that most of the large online dating sites, like Chemistry.com, do not mention anything about their relationship assessments on their site, making it easily accessible. It means you have to sign up to find out the nitty gritty. Why wouldn’t they have more openness & exposure – do they think that other companies are going to copy them?????
Not having a lot of patience, I find these assessments can be so…….time consuming & so exhausting. That’s me anyway, how do you feel about them.
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Today I am starting a review of all the online relationship/profile assessments. I wanted to commence this services with a review of the Yahoo Personals Relationship Profile Assessment. Unfortunately this assessment is only available for members on the Yahoo.com platform so you have to be based in the US to avail of it. I completed this assessment a number of years ago when I was researching my online business of matchmaking. I thought the report was very good particularly that it was free to complete when you signed up on Yahoo Personals. It was created by the good people at WeAttract.com which no longer has a presence on the web? (Let me know if you know where they have disappeared to?)
The main issue that I experienced then, was that not many men completed the long questionnaire so it was difficult to see who were matches & who weren’t? I gather that some people don’t want to spend hours investing in questionnaires???? Also some people may lie on the questionnaires & that would not give accurate results either? What do you think??
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‘where do you find a partner for a possible relationship?’ I used to ask this of myself & others & many of my friends & clients still ask me this continually? Where is the Place to find someone????? My daughter & I went to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival in Ireland on the weekend. You have to hand it to the Irish that they actually have a place (or should I say places, as there are other less well known matchmaking festivals around Ireland) where this modern day dilemma can be solved. This festival/gathering has at its core the main goal which is to match couples. Farmers from all over Ireland come down for the weekends & consult or don’t with the resident matchmaker, Willy Dunne. If you are a woman & are not with a man at this festival, then you are fair game. As my daughter said (we were two women by ourselves) it was ‘predatory’! I didn’t feel comfortable at all being the prey either, so we didn’t stay long. However everyone was having fun (the Irish word is craic) & dancing at all the hotels. There was definitely a spirit of celebration in the air & the alcohol was flowing steadily everywhere & that was in the middle of the day. I’m sure everything was even more lubricated by the time they had gotten into full swing in the evening…..
In today’s world the main areas where people meet or look for partners are online dating sites & social networks. I am interested in how these sites are for supporting real relationships. I discovered a poll on DatingSitesReview.com . They ask: ‘Which dating site would you recommend for the 2007 Dating Sites Reviews Single’s Choice Award?’ & the results of their poll are as follows:
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