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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
You are absolutely right: you cannot ever completely take the whole matchmaking and dating and getting to know each other part of real life dating online. But that is not the point I see in online dating. Online dating shall in my view repl
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Very good point - dating has so much to do with social perceptions. For a stand-alone dating site, there is a serious problem here: people might not want to contact suggested 'matches' out of fear of appearing creepy (this may be subject to
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
What's your rationale behind your proposal to force users to do stuff? Is it to make initial conversation easier? Well, could be an icebreaker, that's true. Do you think it comes across as sincere intermediation or as some kind of forced th
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Good questions. What value do intermediate players provide? Is it in them playing cupid or is it in them being a trustee? Why do people who are introduced to each other go along and talk to the other one - is it because they are interested
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Your last point raises an interesting question - when the current business model of social networking sites is "keeping in touch with people you know", might a future business model be: "Helping you find people you don't know but will find
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Great point about the most efficient way to meet a partner! This is indeed a great question one should ask oneself. I see a problem with that approach though: I guess many people don't want to mix 'efficiency' with
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Might very well be. But there might as well be a business model in simplyfying the process for them and making it a lot more efficient. What do you think?
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by dsplittgerber 17y ago
I am not sure if this is ok to post - I checked the guidelines but found nothing against this. If there is some kind of policy against for feedback like this, I will delete my post. This is definitely not meant to be some kind of ad, just a
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