"social networking"
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2012 and Still Single – That’s Hilarious!
by John Davis, Writer, Comedian and Star of Come Date With Me
Ah the fresh breeze of a new year plays gently across my hungover face. The dating travails of last year seem but a distant memory and after my short-lived televisual fame, I feel I’ve settled into the calm twilight of post singledom years.
6th January 2012
How to make a long distance relationship work
by Alexis Thompson, Girl Friday
Long distance relationships aren't easy, but with regular communication and the ability to trust one another, they can be a success - just follow these top tips...
2nd September 2011
How to know if your parter is cheating online
Facebook now has over 600 million users and another 116 million people use dating websites worldwide. If half of them log on for over 45 minutes each day, how do you know if your significant other is cheating on you online and looking for a Plan B?
9th June 2011
- www.cbsnews.com
Zin.gl uses social network data to find your soulmate
A Russian dating startup aims to ditch lengthy signups and questionnaires and instead mine your activity on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare to find love matches. Zin.gl is now live and has raised $600,000 from angel investors...
6th May 2011
- techcrunch.com
Loss making Chinese "Facebook" raises $743m in flotation
China's answer to Facebook - Renren - has successfully floated on the New York stock exchange with shares rocketing 35% to $19 per share by close of play in the UK. Their network has about 5m monthly users and lost $64.2m last year.
5th May 2011
- www.guardian.co.uk
Sex sells - now global dating sensation Badoo targets Britain
Rhodri Marsden dips his toe in the water with the world's most famous Facebook dating app: Badoo. Despite claiming 113m members and an HQ in London, the site is only just getting around to us Brits. Rhodri isn't impressed by the experience...
12th April 2011
- www.independent.co.uk
Cyberstalkers prefer social networks to online dating
A new study into cyberstalking reveals 40% of victims are men and that perpetrators are very different to their face-to-face equivalent. Over a third were targetted via forums and social networking sites, with only 4% via online dating websites...
12th April 2011
- www.guardian.co.uk
Fake girlfriends available for your Facebook page
This is priceless: a firm called Cloud Girlfriend is offering a service to wow your Facebook friends and annoy your ex. For a small fee they will create a "virtual girlfriend" (suitably babelicious) who you can chat to and pretend to be going out with...
30th March 2011
- blogs.independent.co.uk
Why advertising won't save online dating sites
Julie Ruvolo takes a hard look at Match.com's acquisition of OkCupid and predicts that the only online dating to survive in spite of the social graph will be the adult sites...
22nd March 2011
- adage.com
Social dating service Badoo now has more users than Farmville
London-based Badoo may not be a household name in the english speaking world but it is now officially one of the most popular Facebook apps in the world with 50m active users each month - giving it a wider audience than Zynga's Farmville game...
21st March 2011
- www.ft.com
Lawyers refute claims that Facebook causes 1 in 5 divorces
A recent story citing social networking as the cause of 20% of divorces has been demolished by matrimonial lawyers in the UK. In fact both marriages and divorces have declined with the rise of social networking...
14th March 2011
- online.wsj.com
10 ways social media can ruin your relationship
by Vincent Wong, Token Metrosexual
The connected world presents a host of obstacles for the modern single. Lucky for you Mr Wong has created his top ten tips for not making a real romantic faux pas in the virtual blogo-web-net-twitsphere-thingy...
4th March 2011
Forget Facebook and Twitter: Libyan protestors aided by dating site
In what might be the most surprising piece of evidence to emerge from the current Libya uprising, is how male protestors posed as women on a Muslim dating website called ‘Mawada’, in order to sow the first seeds of the movement towards democracy.
28th February 2011
- www.gizmodo.com.au
StreetSpark launches social matching app
It seems to be a big week for Facebook-based dating apps. New US site StreetSpark is another attempt to use your social networking activity to help find love. They call themselves a "social matching" service, check them out...
22nd February 2011
- www.streetspark.com
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