MIAMI NEW TIMES - Jan 8 - After posting their holiday pictures on BeautifulPeople.com, 5,000 so-called fatties were shuffled once more into the ratings system for re-approval. Only a few hundred were allowed back. Mark Brooks, an analyst and consultant for the online dating industry, says it's normal for online networks to exclude people, but only as a matter of certain obvious preferences, like sexual orientation. "I think the BeautifulPeople tactic is rather amusing," he remarked. "We've been accustomed to magazine cover culture for over 50 years now," he said. "We need to break away from that. People have been aspiring to unnatural extremes of physical beauty." Paul A. Falzone, CEO of International Dating Ventures, which owns eLove, also believes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but clearly he shines a different light. "We think everyone is beautiful, and frankly, were disturbed to hear about the way that these people were treated," said Falzone in a statement. eLove is coming to the rescue, opening its doors to all the rejects from BeautifulPeople. FULL ARTICLE @ MIAMI NEW TIMES
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Posted by: Red Ribbon | Jan 09, 2010 at 09:16 AM
Ummm, Mark, when is someone going to shout out that the emperor has no clothes?
Unless people submitted before and after Christmas photos and/or changed their weight (up) at the same time, how could anyone at BP dot com have known who was suddenly fat?
PSST! IT'S ALL MADE UP FOR PUBLICITY. And, by us talking about it, it is further good PR for them.
Posted by: Sam Moorcroft, ChristianCafe.com | Jan 09, 2010 at 12:26 PM