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"Date Etiquette"
I was on a first date recently. We’d met online. We found ourselves in an independent bookstore after polishing off a six-pack of Stella in Dolores Park. Slightly tipsy, we danced around the narrow aisles of bookshelves so high you need a ladder to reach the top and lingered at the tables of [...]
Rejection is a tricky thing. Online, some don’t think it counts. Lucky for you, you don’t have to worry about it in the first place. We’ve taken the sting out of online rejection. A friendly piece of functionality makes conveying “no thank you” to your admirers a painless process that is neither [...]
Serendipity.
It’s not a word most would typically associate with online dating. (“Google stalking” might be, though.) Up until now, most online dating experiences involve revealing extensive (profile) information about ourselves in hopes that, through browsing, we’ll find someone who has done the same. And we’ll like what they have to say. And they’ll be [...]
We’ve all been there: the awkward first date. The do-we-hug-or-do-we-shake-hands dance. The struggle to get through the first few minutes without stumbling over your own words or your date’s.
While not all first dates are awkward, it’s rare to glide through one without the ever-so-clammy palms, the obvious face flush or, my personal favorite, [...]
Mojo: sometimes you have it. And sometimes you don’t.
No one really jumps at the opportunity to tell someone they’re “just not that into them.” It feels terrible hurting someone’s feelings, even if you’ve only known them for an hour. And even if the feeling’s mutual, it’s still awkward to be the one to bring [...]
One of the things I hate most about traditional online dating is the first message. What to say. What subject line to use (Hey? You seem cool? Vegetarians will rule the world? Just leave it blank?). How not to sound like a dork but rather like an intelligent, mature, funny, witty, cultured, independent human being. [...]
