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…]
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…]
