What Do You Think of Online Dating?

Filed in archive Online Dating on July 3, 2008

I have a reader that tells me that using online dating sites was just about useless for him. That's why he created SparkBliss which, he thinks, is a much better way to meet people online. The idea is that you use introductions from your friends instead of browsing though hundreds of seemingly incompatible people.

This is kind of like being set up on a blind date, except you're online, at least at first. With privacy a big problem on the Internet, and you never knowing who you're really chatting with, wouldn't you feel safer meeting people your friends and family already know?

On online dating sites they make you fill out a whole profile with all your personal information on it. The problem with this is that everyone on the site can see your personal information. What if your boss or your mother were to stumble onto the site and read your profile? What if your co-workers do? Wouldn't you be embarrassed?

With SparkBliss only people you want to see your profile can see it. Your friends and family can recommend someone to you. If you and the other person both want more information about each other then you can both allow the other to read your profile.