Thursday, July 22, 2010

A tip to avoid being a card-carrying cyber dating geek.

I was reading about a new dating service in the New York Times that blurs the line between Online cyber dating and traditional dating. At first look it appears to be kind of cool, but is it? You decide...

Here's how it works. You sign up for a free singles site where you get to post your Online dating profile - nothing new here. Then, for a fee (between $5 and $25) they will send you some business cards with a code identifying the secret location of your Online profile. Then, when you are out-and-about in the real world, if you see somebody that you think is dateable, you simply pass him or her one of your cards. If the recipient is single and interested, s/he can head to the dating website address on the card and check out your dating profile.

Pretty exciting eh?

Well if you think that the concept will work, I can save you between $5 and $25 in the next two minutes.

Here's how to do it for free. Just create a dating profile at www.CyberDating.net and write down the URL of your personal profile on a scrap of paper. Even better, take a full sheet of paper and tear it into business card size pieces and write your first name and the address to your CyberDating profile on each. Then give the pieces of paper to the strangers that interest you while you are out living your off-line life.

The cool thing is that, instead of looking like a desperate geek handing out business cards to hot singles, it will look like you are sincerely interested in the person and that you are more than a little spontaneous. Freaks hand out business cards in a bar, the cool kids write little love notes and pass them discreetly ;)

Cheers,
Tucker

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