Online Personals Watch: News on the Online Dating Industry and Business

Dating Apps That Creep HowAboutWe Out

GLAMOUR - May 5 -

On the Rebound - Alerts you the second a Facebook friend you’ve been crushing on becomes single.

Cloud Girlfriend - Lonely bachelors design a “perfect” fake girlfriend to leave adoring messages on their Facebook walls.

Flavor Connect - Matches lovers based on favorite candy flavors.

Valentine Camera+ - Take a photo of you and your Valentine and adorn it with oodles of red hearts, roses, and…sunflowers. Just so your date knows you’re (creepy) serious.

Passion - With your phone’s microphone and accelerometer rate your sexcapades on a scale from 1 to 10. Compare your performance with other users. You must have your phone on and ACTIVELY LISTENING TO YOU during sex.

Dickorate - Sext a photo of your member in a sombrero. Photograph your package, then dress it up with hats, mustaches, and other adornments.

by J. Adamiak
See full article at Glamour

Cloud Girlfriend: Dating Site With Fake Profiles

NY TIMES - May 26 - New dating site, Cloud Girlfriend, proposes that completely faking it can be the start of a relationship. Users build fantasy profiles by selecting a photo from a bevy of attractive people and creating a fictitious biography and name. A series of questions shapes a personality and matches it with other fantasy profiles. If the match agrees to “date,” they can start sending messages to each other. From there, the relationship can remain a fantasy; or, if the users decide to reveal their true selves, it can progress or die. Users would receive the emotional benefit of sweet talk without being in a relationship, said David Fuhriman, a founder of the site. In the month preceding the site’s start in late April, 85K people signed up.

by Austin Considine
See full article at NY Times