ABC NEWS - Jul 30 - Chelsea Clinton will tie the knot with investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. But will it be a match made in heaven? No, says the new social networking and niche dating site for singles, CanDoBetter. Chelsea and Marc are the featured couple this week, and so far about 6,000 viewers have rated them as incompatible. Only 16%said they were a perfect match, while 47% thought she could do better and 38% said he should ditch her for a better match. The site is now free, but soon members will be able to pay a "minimal" fee and upload photos of themselves and their partners and get responses from other members. "It's a wonderful idea, I love it," said Mark Brooks, an online dating analyst for Courtland Brooks. "From the business perspective, it's brilliant," he said. "You get people talking which is hard to do [these days] with Internet dating. They looked at Hot or Not and have gone one better? I can guarantee it will be knocked off quickly." But Joe Tracy, publisher of Online Dating Magazine, said CanDoBetter's contest is a distorted measurement of attractiveness." Attractiveness is not just based on physical looks, but also on personality," he said. "In essence, CanDoBetter.com is not a true measure of total attractiveness." FULL ARTICLE @ ABC NEWS
Give them time and then make a judgement.
Posted by: dating Helen | Jul 30, 2010 at 08:59 PM
Wow! What a great idea for a website! I think I'll decide whether I should stay with my partner based on the opinions of 6,000 people who don't know us, but who have only looked at our picture. After that I'm going to a psychic to get career advice.
I seriously doubt that only but the most insecure will voluntarily put pictures of themselves on this site. I'll bet they get a lot of pictures from people posting other couples pictures. "I don't like who my friend is dating so I'll put their picture up on this site and show him why a world of people he doesn't know thinks that he and his girlfriend should not be together."
If this site ever makes any money, it is truly a sad commentary on our society.
Posted by: Glenn G. Millar | Jul 31, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Thank you for your common sense! What is wrong with people anymore?
Posted by: Florence | Aug 01, 2010 at 03:37 PM
It's a Jerry Springer world. About time we took it back.
Posted by: Glenn G. Millar | Aug 02, 2010 at 04:59 PM