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This Valentine’s Day Make Your Online Dating Life More Like Real Life with the WhoNow Dating App

When I came across the opportunity to review the latest cutting edge dating app just in time for Valentine’s Day, I immediately wondered if I was the right person to review it. After all, I have a serious boyfriend who I’ve been living with for three years. But then it occurred to me that I might just be the perfect person. They say you should never trust a skinny chef. So why should you trust a single person to give you dating advice? Armed with the knowledge I’ve gathered from being in a long committed relationship, I set out to try WhoNow, a dating app that allows you to give and get anonymous feedback from your friends.

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One of the biggest problems I had with online dating apps and websites when I was single was that they don’t mirror real life. It often becomes a forced and fake experience that you put a lot of work into, but don’t get a lot out of. That’s why I gave up on dating apps and started going to bars where I didn’t meet anyone either. In real life as on regular social media sites, you’re always getting feedback from and engaging with your friends. However, dating apps have traditionally asked us to go at it alone. That’s where WhoNow is different.

By allowing you to organize your relationships with anonymous comments and feedback from your trusted friends and followers, WhoNow lets your friends do half the work making dating less of a burden and a lot more fun. WhoNow also helps you make better dating decisions by allowing you to use polls, locations and images in post for better advice. Just like in real life getting feedback from friends on anything from finding a date to where you should go on your third date, is fast and simple. You can invite friends to join you on your dating journey using their phone numbers for a fast and secure one way invite. No need to worry about random followers. WhoNow is completely private. Your information will only be shared with the people you invite and comments from your trusted inner circle are 100% private.

With the help of our friends, we can all become better daters and have more fun doing it. So if you’re interested in changing your dating game or getting back into it, WhoNow is available for free download on iOS and Google Play.

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What Stirs You? Create a Match.com Summer Singles Event and Win!

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Happy Birthday Stir! Match.com is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Stir Events, a program dedicated to taking online dating offline by offering a wide range of activities to Match members around the country ranging from large-scale happy hours at popular venues, to more intimate events like tequila tastings and DJ lessons. While some cater to more general interests such as after work drinks, others focus on specific activities where participants can find a potential match with a similar hobby or interest. In just one year, Match has hosted a total of 2,850 events and counting. Broken down, that’s 14 events each day, 75 events a week, and 320 events per month! Match has collaborated with over 1,200 venues and partners, including House of Blues, Banana Republic, Sur la Table, and Warrior Dash, along with local gems in each city. Events have been organized in over 80 cities across America including in Anchorage and Honolulu. To date, over 225,000 singles have attended a Stir event and they are only getting started.

 In celebration of the Stir’s anniversary, Match.com is offering the opportunity for singles to create their own Stir event. To enter, visit Match.com’s What Stirs You? Contest Page now through Tuesday May 28th, telling them what you think would make for the perfect singles event. Entries will be judged based on quality, creativity, uniqueness, and geographical relevance. The selected winner will have their idea executed by the Match.com Stir Events team in their city, and will receive an invitation to attend the event along with ten of their singles friends – all at no charge. In addition, the winner will also receive a free six-month Match.com subscription which could come in handy for those socialites seeking summer love!

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Match.com Studies Singles in America

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When Carrie Bradshaw wrote freelance at Vogue in an episode of Sex and the City she once proclaimed to her overly critical editor that she may not know men, but she certainly knows shoes.  All over the world, there are countless women who feel the exact same way.  For millions of years, humans have been trying to make sense of the complex world of love and we don’t seem to be any closer to understanding relationships.  For the third year in a row, Match.com surveyed thousands of men and women throughout the country and compiled a study on how Americans today really perceive dating, relationships, and of course the casual hook up.  The sample was chosen was based on the U.S. Census and included 5,000 single men and women as well as 1,000 married people.  They included people from every age, race, ethnic background, and area of the country.

Over the weekend, I attended a Match.com event on the Upper West Side where the online dating site’s very own cultural anthropologist,  Dr. Helen Fisher, who conducted the study presented her findings over cocktails. I must say that the findings were incredibly powerful and unexpected.  Though Americans seem to be experimenting more than ever, the overwhelming majority of both men and women ultimately still want a committed monogamous relationship.  The study even showed that men on average tend to be more romantic than women, fall in love faster, and want to move in together sooner.  However, what Dr. Fisher thought was the most interesting of her findings was that the modern-day “Friends with Benefits” phenomenon seems to have become a new and important part of the courtship process.  In fact, 50% of the singles surveyed who said they had been in a friends with benefits relationship, said that it resulted in a deeper relationship.  Click here to check out the rest of the study and have an amazing Valentine’s Day.

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6 Must-Read Online Dating Lessons

With the exception of its disappointingly complicated dating scene, NYC has the best of everything.  So even a socialite can use all the help she can get.  When people finally find dating success, it’s always customary to pay it forward with priceless advice.  One of Sparkology’s success stories recently released the top 6 lessons she learned that are bound to turn the nightmare of online dating into a dream come true.

Lesson #1: Make sure your profile truly reflects you
Your profile is a very limited snapshot of who you are; but, as a potential date’s only view, you want to make sure that it is a good and honest depiction. This could seem like a daunting task, so don’t be afraid to get help and second opinions. Bouncing your profile off a good platonic male friend can be invaluable – he’ll offer you insight into what your target audience is looking for and how your profile comes across.

Lesson #2: Go ahead and send a smile or two
As I come from a very conservative background, the idea of “making the first move” by sending a smile made me really nervous. However, I’ve learned that if you see a guy that really sparks your interest, you have nothing to lose by sending him a smile. Thinking about it from a male perspective, wouldn’t you be really nervous about sending a spark (Sparkology’s term for message) to someone with the possibility of being rejected? He may not have seen your profile yet, and sending a smile will let him know that you’re interested. I have done this a couple of times, and ended up with really sweet and excited responses. And it’s not like I had to make the first move ALL the time – the guys took the lead in asking me out and setting up the date after I sent the initial smile.

Lesson #3: Give the guy that spent a spark on you a shot
Despite Lesson #2, any guy that makes the first move by sending a spark on you gets extra kudos. (Ahem to any of the gents out there!) He must have been nervous sending that initial message, so unless he completely turns you off, you should really give him a chance with a first date. You have nothing to lose and never know until you meet someone in person. Wouldn’t you want the same consideration if the shoe were on the other foot?

Lesson #4: If it doesn’t look like the conversation’s going offline any time soon, you may want to reconsider
I learned this lesson the hard way after a month of seemingly great messaging back and forth with a guy in the hopes of meeting in person for a date. “Scheduling conflicts” kept getting in the way, and a final message seemed to go off into space. Though this was certainly not a pleasant experience, the definite lesson learned was that if it doesn’t look like you’re going to meet in person some time soon, it could be a red flag. Based on feedback from my best guy friend, guys are usually pretty impatient to meet a girl after a bit of good back-and-forth messaging.

Lesson #5: Go in with the right mindset
My first couple of dates, I was super-nervous about whether or not I was acting like a girl my date would like. This was the most counterproductive thing I could have done – it prevented me from carrying a good conversation and being myself. Even though I can’t say that I don’t still get nervous, I’ve learned that the date goes much more smoothly if I try to turn that anxiety into excitement. A date is a great opportunity to meet someone new and interesting, not a test on whether you can meet someone’s expectations.

Lesson #6: It’s okay if he wasn’t Mr. Right
For whatever reason, you and your date may not end up being compatible. It doesn’t mean that something’s wrong with either of you. It just means you didn’t click romantically. I’ve been on both ends of the stick – the one no longer interested and the one my date’s no longer interested – and both feel crummy. If you’re the one being let down, your feelings will be a bit hurt, but it isn’t any indication of you as a person. It also feels bad if you’re the one doing the letting down, but definitely don’t ignore the guy and leave him hanging. You will probably be on the other side of the stick at some point, and would like the same courtesy extended to you. But as bad as both scenarios feel, you’re giving each other the chance you deserve to find someone who’s completely nuts about you.

Many thanks to Chrissy for sharing her amazing dating advice with Aspiring Socialite!