Meeting Your Match Online: The Complete Guide to Internet Dating and Dating Services – Including True Life Date Stories
Recent studies show that more than 20 million people will visit at least one online dating service a month in 2008. Internet dating has several advantages, among them the ability to discover everything about a potential partner before ever meeting them. You can learn their age, religious affiliations, education, expectations, interests, hobbies, and so on. Internet dating allows you to chat online and get to know someone before meeting them. There is also the ability to meet people on a varied s
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Review by Julie Souza for Meeting Your Match Online: The Complete Guide to Internet Dating and Dating Services – Including True Life Date Stories
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Internet dating can be scary, especially if you don’t know anything about it. This book guides readers through the basics, and is full of true stories from couples who have successfully navigated the online dating world. The author gives great technical advice about the type of computer equipment you will need and the importance of having current virus protection programs. Tamsen also includes detailed information about the most popular dating sites, including social networking sites, and how to choose the best site for your needs. You are given the tools you need to weigh the pros and cons of each site and make an informed choice about which one to use. The author even uses personal experiences as learning examples with many of the sites.
Once you find someone to correspond with, the author gives wonderful advice about the importance of honesty and how to answer questions, including how to respond to personal questions. The author even includes a list of popularly used instant messaging acronyms you may see and explains what they mean. Tamsen wisely advises readers not to rush to meet someone, but to take the time to correspond with someone for a period of time first until you feel comfortable meeting in person. When you’re ready to meet, Tamsen gives great ideas about ideal places for your meeting. This is a really thorough guide to internet dating that explains everything you need to know to find the perfect mate.
Review by Brittany J. Middleton for Meeting Your Match Online: The Complete Guide to Internet Dating and Dating Services – Including True Life Date Stories
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A great book to check out before registering for any of those dating
sites! Butler’s voice is natural and without being overly optimistic.
Sometimes things just don’t work out, but she encourages you to
continue your search through other avenues.
Also includes some real humorous (and heartbreaking) stories from
people who’ve gone through the gauntlet. Most important, she gives you
a good idea for which site is right for you (because believe it or
not, they each are strikingly different – even on the basis of
“compatibility” and its part in your search). I’m still a bit
skeptical about dating online, but at least I feel I have some more
knowledge before taking the plunge. Definitely one I’ll recommend to
friends
Review by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman for Meeting Your Match Online: The Complete Guide to Internet Dating and Dating Services – Including True Life Date Stories
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In what may be the single, longest title in the history of books, Tamsen Butler evocatively sets forth on a journey of the online dating world and how to not only manage it, but effectively conquer it, and she presents it in a language that will be accessible for even the most uncertain of readers.
Being happily involved with my own match, I read this initially to assist a friend who, having tired of trying to meet people locally (and being of a certain age), decided to cast her lot with online dating. This evoked a lot of red flags in me, and thus began my quest. There are a lot of dating sites out there, and even more unsavory characters. I did not want a 3 AM tragedy call.
Butler is simultaneously cautionary as well as savvy and lays forth enough good, common sense information that I nearly demanded that my friend read this before deciding. She includes some of the better known sites, and throws a few lesser known ones in for good measure, and also reviews each site providing straightforward information on the qualification process including tips on taking the questionnaires. As well, she notes things that you might and might not like about each site.
Additional information presented includes several case studies of individuals who have met through online services which seem sincere enough, even if predictably outcome aligned. Overall, I felt this book was a fantastic guide for my dear friend, who appreciated it immensely and plans to put several of its strategies into play herself. If you (or a friend) are just entering into the world of online matchmaking, likely you will find this book to be an indispensible tool in your dating arsenal.