Online dating isn’t new. Match.com launched 15 years ago, and eHarmony, claims responsibility for 2% of all U.S. marriages.
What is new is that people are bypassing matchmaking sites and creating their own online presence to solicit dates.
Brian, a 23-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is using his site Dating Brian to wade through the very large pool of single women in NYC. His goal is to go on 30 dates in 30 days, all with women suggested by visitors to the site. If you’d like to date Brian, you can even nominate yourself. He uses Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to update his followers on date status and to request date suggestions.
Colby Brin (as seen on a recent Today show) is another interesting example of someone taking ownership of the online dating scene….sort of. His mom, Geri Brin, actually solicited dates from eager young women on her son’s behalf, whom she describes as family-oriented, cute, funny and a fabulous writer.
Brin’s idea inspired a new dating site where moms can add their single kid to the dating pool.
The Fab Over Fifty website includes a “Date My Single Kid” link. In the site’s first few days, profiles are already pouring in, with moms extolling the virtues of their kids, from their smarts to their culinary skills.
So far, the fix-up site is drawing moms posting about their kids ranging in age from young 20s to 40. The site doesn’t set the kids up directly; naturally, any potential suitor has to answer to mom first.
And if that seems like meddling, well, Brin won’t hear of it. “I don’t think it’s meddling at all; I think it’s casting a wider net,” she told Vieira. “Everybody’s busy today. We can be agents for our kids.” – MSNBC
Users are definitely embracing the online world to get real-life romance.
Labels: eHarmony, Match.com, online dating, viral
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