Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato - Nice basket, fancy dinner?
Article Subject: Nice basket, fancy dinner?
Article Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/06/dating-agency-asda-shopping-basket
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Dr. Dato’s Brief:
I found this article through the Google Dating Alerts I receive in my email inbox almost every day. So far a number of these postings can be passed off as not readable or not having any worthy content. However, some posters are very clever in promoting other dating sites through articles such as this.
Unknown to the reader, this article makes out that Asda, which is a famous supermarket like Safeway here in USA have officially launched a dating site called AsdaDating.com. This struck me as rather interesting and curiosity got the better of me, since my specialty includes researching in the online dating scene. By the way Asda is owned by the meg retailer Wal-Mart.
The subject of the article is interesting as it talks about how someone’s shopping basket can be compared with someone else and a relationship compatibility match can be extracted from this information. It has several people writing in and sharing their notes on this subject. Unfortunately, on further investigation there is no such site called AsdaDating.com and in fact the link takes you to UKDating.com which is a pretty generic dating site in UK.
One will come across marketing techniques such as this to drive traffic to the dating site but I am surprised that a creditable paper such as the Guardian.co.uk did not check it’s own story out for accuracy or maybe they are in the marketing scheme themselves?
Tags: asdadating - no such site, guardian.co.uk, new dating site
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I am woman who has my faith as my foundation,my patience and giving self as the building blocks, and, as I have been told… a heart as big as Texas. I wish to love someone for the rest of my life. To wake up with him by my side, knowing that no matter what happens…I’ll be able to have his loving arms to come home to. To share everything with him.To talk to him about our own ideas, our dreams,the little things that make us laugh.. and the not so little things that we can’t help worrying about. I want to give him my love…a pure love -as a place that he can come to for acceptance or the simple comfort that silence brings when words left unspoken can still be understood. I want to grow old with him, to watch our life unfold, our dreams, one by one, to become our reality.I’m looking for someone who has a good sense of humor, is easy going, has a positive outlook, is open-minded and mature. I would describe myself as kind, thoughtful and compassionate. I was extremely shy when I was a little girl which I think has often resulted in some people mistakenly thinking I’m snobbish or aloof; now I’m just a little reserved until I get to know someone. I’m not a drama queen or a whiner. I like to laugh and I like to think my kids keep me young. I enjoy good books, movies and like to cook and bake. I enjoy nature and the outdoors but am not really athletic. I love music (pop and country, some stuff from other genres) and the arts in general. I tend to lead a fairly quiet life. I would prefer to snuggle on the couch with someone I care about than go to an amusement park (don’t really like crowds)
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