I wrote a post last year why can’t dating sites be more like social networks and mentioned some mobile dating sites amongst others.  Since then location based apps and sites have sprung up all over the net and have become very popular.  Foursquare and Gowalla now regularly update to Twitter so that people can meet up with each other wherever they find themselves.  There is no more lonely or should I say alone?

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these days the odds seem stacked against finding a perfect match couple when looking for a relationship.  It seems we can be attracted to a person’s smell (see my post Smelly Love) or their hormones (Different Strokes for Different Sites) or their genes (Review of GenePartner compatibility test) or even their taste in music (ASoundMatchdotcom Relationship Assessment Review).  And there are still no guarantees that you will have a perfect match couple.

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wouldn’t it be great if online dating sites were more like social networks?  These days most people spend a lot of time interacting on social networks, you dont have to be a geek now!  I have to own up to being very partial to social networks and find that in contrast online dating sites can be less friendly or able to deliver a good match, probably due to their fear of loss of customers?

“There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.” Guy Almes

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I completed True.com‘s relationship assessment questionnaire a number of years ago & it produces a veritable tome of information all about Moi & was almost 32 pages. Do we ever get tired of reading such detailed information about ourselves?  Not me, however the assessment took about 40minutes to complete and that is a long time for an impatient person such as the likes of me.

It was compiled by Dr Rense Lange.  You can read an interview with him at Online Dating Magazine.

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living together successfully can either be a wonderful learning & sharing experience or a real test for any couple. Unfortunately the latter has the higher percentage of entrants in the couple stakes. There are several components to the question how to live together successfully?

“That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” Bill Cosby

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