It’ll be Lonely this Christmas…

Being single at Christmas – is it joyous or horrendous? On one hand, Christmas is a very sociable time of year with parties, dinners and lots of opportunities to meet exciting new people. On the other hand, most of these parties and dinners are filled with couples or old relatives asking if you’ve ‘got a…

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Tinder’s Getting an Upgrade – Will the Paid Version be Worth It?

The creators of Tinder have announced they are introducing a paid premium version of the quick and free dating app. The new upgrade will allow you to undo an accidental swipe left and expand your search distance beyond 100 miles (read more here). But I’m not convinced about how useful these features will be. Surely the…

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New City, New Start

Match.com has gone. POF has gone. And although I’m still single, I’m relieved that my junk inbox is no longer filled with constant notifications of blokes winking at me or wanting to meet me. Despite many people’s reservations about the shagging app Tinder, it’s been my trusty companion during the turmoil caused by POF and…

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“Who Knows What a Date Might Lead To…?”

“Who knows what a date might lead to…?” This is the tagline Match.com use for their TV advert. It features a young male and female prancing around cornfields, making crop circles, akin to those in Signs. Aside from the obvious issue that I wouldn’t class making crop circles as a viable first date, and this…

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Dreadful Chat-Up Lines

We all know that with online dating the stakes are low. Most of the time, you don’t know one another and you certainly don’t owe one another anything which could be why many people take a risk and send a slightly obscure first message as a chat-up line. There’s really nothing to lose by sending…

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Single Life So Far…

Eighteen months ago  I broke up with my long-term boyfriend; we had been going out for seven years and things just started to go downhill. Single life was going to be amazing  – I was in the second year of university and there were some pretty attractive guys on campus. And for the first eight months, it…

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