Online Dating Is Dead
February 29, 2008 – 11:13 amWHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me… it’s dead! The “traditional” online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D).
I’m calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to use Facebook and Myspace as their primary place to meet people single people, or to make new friends. Micro web apps are going to start to slowly replace traditional online dating sites.
With the new flow of social networking data that will be available to the masses, we will have an epic swing in the online dating market (which in essence is a niche social network for singles). This swing will be from traditional dating sites, to sites that leverage all the data on the social networks into a sort of singles clearing house. Why would I go to match or yahoo, when I can go to one site that ties into 100’s of million users that already use social networks, not to mention friend of a friend data, their likes and dislikes, and the pile of other data at our fingertips.
2008 is the start of the end for paid dating… and if you don’t believe me, go see what wired has to say about the future of business.
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