Senior Friend Finder: LOVE AT FIRST SITE,
SO MANY CHOICES: THE INTERNET ABOUNDS WITH SERVICES THAT PROMISE HELP FINDING A MATCH
It combines the thrill of getting fan mail from strangers with the agony of being rejected by people who don't have the slightest idea who you are.It's the online personals, the 21st century way of finding love. Or not. This must be how futuristic Buck Rogers will meet his Jane Deering, how George Jetson will find Jane, how Capt. Kirk will meet - well, just about every available female humanoid from here to Andromeda. And no doubt in their far distant world of...
Senior Friend Finder: LOVE BLOSSOMS ON THE INTERNET
Never underestimate the allure of a cheap date.Since Miami Beach-based Webdate started offering a free online dating service two years ago, some 2.8 million love-seekers have signed up. The company's traffic surged 800 percent in 2004, compared to 17 percent for the industry as a whole. And with 8,000 to 10,000 new users signing up daily, Webdate has the fastest-growing black book in the industry.First adopted by the technologically adventurous and socially averse,...
Senior Friend Finder: Internet dating becoming a profitable, mobile service
MIAMI (KRT) — Never underestimate the allure of a cheap date. Since Miami Beach-based Webdate started offering a free online dating service two years ago, some 2.8 million love-seekers have signed up. The company’s traffic surged 800 percent in 2004, compared to 17 percent for the industry as a whole. And with 8,000 to 10,000 new users signing up daily, Webdate has the fastest-growing black book in the industry. First adopted by the...
Senior Friend Finder: WEB OF LOVE
People 50 and older finding partners through online dating services SANTA FE -- What does it take to find true love? A dating service? A happy hour? Luck? For Summer MoonBear, 60, and Don Brown, 76, it was the mouse. The couple, together for two years, may be the new face of online dating. Age 55-and-over consumers are creating a second wave for Internet dating services as young professionals tire of matchmaker sites such as American Singles. There are more...
Senior Friend Finder: @ HOME / Seniors Set Their Sites on Romance
WHEN ROSE SORDILLO'S three daughters chipped in and bought her a new computer for her 74th birthday last May, they also gave her some free advice: "Don't get in trouble, Ma!" Sordillo didn't exactly get in trouble. But the Deer Park woman whose marriage ended in divorce more than 20 years ago, is about to wed a man she met online almost a year to the day she opened that new PC. "I got on there and I thought it was...