Internet Dating Executives Form Alliance.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Executives from online dating services throughout the world have formed the Internet Dating Executive Alliance (IDEA). IDEA's membership, by invitation only, consists of executives from a veritable who's who in the international Internet dating world: eHarmony, Match, Plentyoffish, The Right One...

Does Love Come Economy-Sized in a Downsized Economy?
Leading Relationship Expert reveals dating behaviors during uncertain times. Results show spike in online dating as economy takes a nose-dive SEATTLE, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Many things get downsized to survive a recession. Love, however, isn't one of them. In uncertain economic times, people are...

Online Dating: Safety Issues and Solutions in 2007; Efforts Under Way to Fight Financial Scams and Sexual Predators.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- With increased numbers of users and an increase in the amount of providers of online dating services comes opportunity for cyber crime and a need for users of these services to maintain safety awareness while surfing for love. In light of this, public safety...

Oleson plays dating game.
Byline: Bill Doyle COLUMN: TUNING IN Amanda Oleson thinks "The Bachelor," "ElimiDate" and other TV dating shows are ridiculous, but she wanted to appear on NESN's "Sox Appeal" because she didn't consider it to be in the same ballpark. "Sox Appeal," in fact,...

The impact of Internet technologies on primary and secondary romantic relationship development.
This study examined the impact that changes in Internet-based technologies have on romantic relationships developed exclusively online. Thirty-six participants completed the 44-item Online Relationships Questionnaire. Participants were then divided into three categories based on self-reported media preference: asynchronous text, synchronous text, and rich media. No significant differences existed on...

Online Dating: Truth Beyond the Misconceptions.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the popular web-based dating service, onlinebootycall.com, somewhere near 100 million people worldwide are hooking up on line. Of course, who's counting? Onlinebootycall.com, which began in 2002 with one customer, now has more than 1 million customers. That's a lot of notions...

Online interaction up among socially anxious college students.
MIAMI -- College students who report high levels of social anxiety are nine times more likely to use a Web cam for online communication compared with peers without social anxiety. In addition, those with dating anxiety are 13 times more likely to use the interactive technology, according to a...

Looking for love on all the web pages.
Since it seems that a big concern for many of our readers is how their lovely son or daughter can meet a similarly lovely young Catholic mate, here's a tip for the Valentine season: online Catholic dating. Christian--and specifically Catholic--online dating services have taken very seriously the command to...

Click here for cupid.
If you had three minutes to evaluate a candidate for romance, what would you say? How would you act? That dilemma is no longer the province of fantasy for millions of online daters. Unless you know how to present yourself--or is that "package" yourself?--in a compelling way,...

Why You're Still Single.
Why You're Still Single Evan Marc Katz & Linda Holmes Plume/Penguin Publishing Group 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 Goldberg McDuffie Communications (publicity) 444 Madison Avenue, Suite 3300, New York, NY 10022 0452287383 $13.00 www.amazon.com ...