Using Picture Rating Sites for Profile Attraction

by Matt Savage on February 22, 2010


Editors Note: I wrote this article in mind for males specifically, however, the same process should work as well for females if not better.

Rise of the Picture Rating Sites

Back in the early 2000s, a small little picture rating site know as HotorNot.com hit the Interwebs in a big viral tidal wave with it’s unique but simple concept of rating people based on their looks. Though not quite novel in the history of men, as we have been rating women for on some sort of scale for ages. However, with this new innovative move to the Internet, the practice of objectifying everyone and anyone on a one to ten scale could now be streamlined on a massive scale. Essentially, HotorNot became the Henry Ford of objectifying peoples beauty and lack thereof. [click to continue…]

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Announcing the 45 Day Online Dating Challenge

by Matt Savage on February 15, 2010

After doing an extensive online dating profile case study in the last post, it got me to thinking about my own Internet dating efforts and realized that I’ve been slouching lately. A quick look at my own dating profile made me realize that it was about due for some renovations and updates.

After even more thinking, I realized that I should probably spend a certain period of time where I essentially go all out, guns blazing, in the online dating realm. I’m talking complete testing, re-testing, and overhaul of my dating profiles followed by 30 days of sending out messages to potential dates. It would basically be an experiment to see what happens when a guy really puts in a ton of effort with Internet dating. [click to continue…]

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Online Dating Profile Case Study

February 8, 2010

I recently received a request to critique an online dating profile from the PlentyofFish dating site. And though the profile was already fairly decent and well written, there were certainly a number of things in which I would change, or at least test out for comparison purposes. So we are going to go ahead and [...]

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Penpal Dating

February 1, 2010

Back in the day, before the Interwebs came along, there was such a thing as Pen Pals. The concept of a pen pal was that you basically write letters, with an actual pen and paper, to another person or friend who is a long distance away. It was kind of a neat concept at the [...]

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Plenty of Fish Password Email

January 28, 2010

So every week I get the above email in my inbox from the PlentyofFish.com dating site. And every week, they decide that it’s a good idea to remind of my password by spelling it out right there in the middle of the email. Yep, it’s that spot that I blanked out in yellow, and it [...]

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Sample Online Dating Email Messages

November 17, 2009

Lately I have been getting really good at having great flirty conversations on PlentyofFish. I’ve found that the most successful email message exchanges, regardless if I initiate contact with the girl or she does, is all about banter. What do I mean by “banter?” Well to put it simply, it’s a kind of humorous, playful, [...]

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Vegetarian Singles vs. BBQ Singles

November 11, 2009

Are you having trouble looking for dates with high I.Q.s and great bodies? Well, all you have to do is a search on your favorite online dating site for the word “vegetarian.” Yup, that’s it, one simple search for vegetarian singles and you easily narrow down the gene pool to the hottest and brightest. What’s [...]

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10 F*cked Up Online Dating Stories

November 4, 2009

Sure, plenty of people have found love on the Internet. Some find promiscuous flings. Some even end up getting married. This article isn’t about those types of online dating stories. This is about those once in a life time circumstances, when the person you meet online turns out to be a compete disaster of an [...]

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My Cougar Dating Story

October 28, 2009

One year ago… She’s sitting down the bar twirling a tiny straw around in high ball glass of what I presume is a gin and tonic. She’s got a tight body and is all prettied up with make-up, hair and a sexy outfit, a bit overkill if you ask me, well at least for being [...]

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Vegetarian Dating Options?

October 27, 2009

It just occurred to me that Plenty of Fish doesn’t has an option to categorize oneself as a vegan or vegetarian. There are plenty of other things to categorize oneself by like religion, body type, preference for children, your drinking/smoking habits and even if you have a car or not. All of these very clear [...]

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