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With Internet use higher than ever and new online dating services created on a daily basis, it is no wonder that college students are increasingly signing on to these sites.

The main question is "Why join an online dating service when Florida State is such a large place overflowing with new people to meet?"

Several students would argue that despite the outrageous amount of students present, the chance of meeting someone with similar interests is minimal.

"I just feel like, there being so many people here at FSU, I can't really meet anyone that I'm into," FSU junior Jennifer Brown stated. "I've never met anyone on the Internet or signed up for a dating service, but I definitely know people that have and are in long term relationships because of it."

Three students were willing to come forward and talk about the effects online dating had on them, but all preferred to remain anonymous.

One student, originally from Tampa and a current History major, explained that online dating has been quite a positive experience.

"Online dating has provided me with the ability to talk to the opposite sex in a way I did not think possible," one student said. "It's a lot easier, and less risky, for me to talk to someone online. The fear of rejection is not the same."

For this student in particular, there was a connection made with someone over the Internet site Tickle. The two had been conversing via email and, after numerous e-mails, decided it was time to meet in person.

After a successful dinner date, the pair decided that they had clicked and continued a serious relationship for the following 15 months.

Despite this success story, there remain a multitude of risks when meeting someone online. With no hard evidence that this person is indeed who they claim to be, it is tough to really know who will be sitting across the table at the restaurant.

Perhaps the person is mentally unstable or not an attractive brunette, but a 300-pound man named Jim.

Aside from Web sites such as Match.com, JDate, Tickle, Yahoo! Personals and Great Expectations, the Internet offers other ways for college students to meet online. Popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook allow people to access a lot of personal information, which most agree is not always a good thing.

Many students are familiar with the idea of "poking," or sending a message to express interest.

However, not everyone scoffs at the idea of meeting someone through a friend on Facebook, or through the site in general.

The second student to comment on the issue of meeting someone online was informative regarding the experience.

This student, a senior majoring in Exercise Science, found a companion through Facebook. After being poked several times â€" in which one individual person presses a button to inform another they are interested in them â€" the two of them began to message each other.

"I got frustrated with the poking, so I sent a message saying, "Listen I think you're cute. Enough with the poking, just talk to me,"" the student commented.

Because of the distance between the two, they found that the Internet, and soon the phone, would be the only way to really get to know each other.

How was it that this person from another city was able to find this student? Simple.

When online with a site like Facebook or Myspace, it is entirely possible to search through friends of friends. This person was an FSU alumni, and while searching through people who went to FSU â€"  bingo.

After contacting the student and speaking via e-mail and the phone, as well as the Webcam for about a month, they decided to meet in Orlando.

"When people heard I was going to meet someone in Orlando from the Internet, alone, there was a great deal of concern," the student said. "For some reason, I wasn't afraid. I felt like, regardless of the fact we hadn't met, there was hardly any danger. You get to know someone through phone conversations, and get to feel comfortable. Well, at least that's how it went for me."

As of now, the couple is doing great. Instead of just talking, they have successfully graduated to a real relationship â€" all thanks to a Web site.

Online dating is not always this successful. Despite the lower risk of rejection, it does still exist.

The third student that came forward had a short but typical online dating experience.

It began with a simple e-mail expressing interest and attraction that turned into a "We should do dinner sometime."

Last weekend the student, soon to be a part of the nursing school, went to meet their online match for dinner. The student was prepared to meet someone they believed they had a lot in common with, but no one showed up to meet them at the restaurant and no one called.

According to www.libertonline.com, two professors from Miami University; Jessica E.Donn, MA; and Richard C. Sherman, PhD; conducted a study in Oxford, Ohio, to determine the amount of college students who participate in online dating.

The researchers conducted the study to "examine young adults' attitudes and practices about using the Internet to facilitate the formation of intimate relationships."

According to published findings, 235 undergraduates and 76 PhD students were surveyed about their attitudes toward and use of the Internet in forming relationships. More graduate students than undergraduates reported meeting someone in person whom they had first met on the Internet, and had both thought about and taken steps to meet a friend or mate on the Internet. Graduate students also expressed more positive views of using the Internet to form relationships.

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Thuthuka Hlophe, the son of embattled Cape Judge President John Hlophe, claims to be the target of a "love-crazy bitch " who has allegedly sent death threats to his loved ones.

A warrant of arrest is out for Kgomotso Mathabathe, 25, from Sandton, who faces contempt of court charges after allegedly intimidating, harassing and sending death threats to Hlophe's girlfriend, Yandiswa Quwe, and her sister — and ignoring a court order to stop.

Hlophe, 26, a Cape Town businessman, said he received more than 90 missed calls every day from Mathabathe, and claimed she had created a profile for him on a gay website.

"The woman is crazy and I do not feel safe at all," he said. "She is a love-crazy bitch."

On Wednesday, Amanda Goba, 35, a former Muvhango actress and sister to Quwe, applied for a peace order at the Randburg Magistrate's Court to stop Mathabathe harassing her and her sister and threatening to harm her children.

In court papers, Goba claimed that Mathabathe had wrecked her credit profile by opening clothing accounts and buying insurance policies in her name. She also told the court that Mathabathe threatened to set up profiles bearing her name and photograph on Internet dating websites.

But by Friday Mathabathe was already ignoring the court order, Goba told the Sunday Times.

Both Hlophe and Mathabathe said theirs had been a business relationship, but his girlfriend, Yandiswa Quwe, 27, said Mathabathe was bitter because Hlophe had dumped her four years ago.

Quwe, mother of Hlophe's four-month-old baby girl, claimed Mathabathe had called her and sent her SMSs saying that "as long as I'm in the picture, your baby will not live for long".

"She even called me on Thursday to tell me that she bought a gun and that she was going to kill me," said Quwe.

"She said that first it was me, then my sister Amanda — and my brother Bongani was going to be next."

Quwe, who lives in Port Elizabeth, claimed Mathabathe had created a profile in her name on an Internet dating website and "painted it to make me look like a devil".

Hlophe said of Mathabathe: "She claims that I owe her money and the figures keep on changing every day. I honestly don't know where all this comes from."

Hlophe denies ever dating Mathabathe. He said he met her several years ago when he rented a flat to her.

He said that she once even phoned his father, Judge John Hlophe and had sworn at him.

"She even posted messages on a website to say I was dead, and invited people to attend my memorial service," he said.

On Friday, Mathabathe denied all allegations made against her by Hlophe, Goba and Quwe, saying they were false. She said she was not romantically interested in Hlophe and denied they ever dated each other.

She said the reason she called him every day was because he owed her R4500 that he had borrowed from her when he was "broke and unemployed".

She denied ever phoning Quwe or Goba or creating Internet profiles of Hlophe. She also denied calling Hlophe's father.

"I got my dad to phone Judge Hlophe, asking his son to pay me my money. I spoke to Thuthuka's stepmother and she just told me that I must give up as I will never get my money," Mathabathe said.

On Friday, Mathabathe told the Sunday Times that she was unaware of the warrant for her arrest.

Bramley police spokesman Constable Neria Malefetse confirmed that an arrest warrant had been issued for Mathabathe and that she faced charges of contempt of court for allegedly ignoring the peace order.

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Life As A Senior Citizen By Barbara Krupa, West Hollywood

West Hollywood, California (Monday, September, 2008) - Last week I asked for suggestions, and you sure didn't let me down. Here are some of them

One suggested I ask for a dancing partner (which I have done); that one came from my friend in my dance class.

Another told me, "Don't go on the internet" – at all. Hmmm, I wonder what I should call the column, in that case.

My personal favorite, though, was that I should write on the overbuilding in WeHo, said this person. Maybe developers are mostly single and need to meet nice women to date.

It's been a wee bit on the quiet side this week.

Except for the Buddhist Monk (honestly) who is enthralled with me and a few young ,VERY YOUNG admirers, I have decided to reinvent myself.

I mean, over 100 men have viewed me (and that's only on one site), and only 2 have contacted me.

One of those had a bag over his face and the other one was all of 22 years old. I have carbuncles older than that.

I changed my heading, rewrote my profile and added some very good pictures.

My closest friend said I'm just larger than life and men are probably intimated by me. Thanks for the information, but on the Internet????

It is difficult at any age to find someone, and at my age (I'll tell you later - much later – how old I am) the pickings are really slim.

The 70 year old men want 40 to 50 years old I hate to tell them, but when I was 40 to 50, 26 year old men were after me. Right now I'm looking for a younger man – oh, say about ----60.

God knows what they're looking for.

So because of the lull, I've had time to recall some of the men that I've met and I haven't told you about.

One I went out with for about a month. I was so thrilled that someone wanted to see me again I neglected that nagging thought that we didn't have much in common.

One night, he calmly told me he was looking for someone to take care of him. Aha! So am I!! Finally I found something we had in common.

Needless to say, I don't see him anymore….

There was one who I kept waiting for about 10 minutes. He didn't let me forget it during lunch.

So I ordered the most expensive item on the menu plus dessert (I was eating desserts at the time), said I had errands to run and then I ran…..

Most of them have merged into one gigantic blur and my memory is fading as I age, so that's a blessing.

So you may be asking. Why in God's name is she still looking? Why doesn't she just give up?

After all , look at her age – look at her competition - just look. It's my nature, my friends.

I'm like that dog that clamped her teeth around the postman's leg and just couldn't let go. Or something like that. I'm still in search of someone wonderful (or just someone).

As soon as I finish this column, I'm heading straight to my dating sites.

And, I still would love some suggestions….about Internet dating, if you can, please.

Barbara Krupa has lived in or near the West Hollywood area since well before cityhood. She raised both her sons here.

She is a member of the Senior Advisory Board for the City and is involved with various organizations. PAWSLA is a particular favorite.

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In many ways online dating provides a better peace of mind for both parties with options to browse by category, e.g. if a man were looking for love rather than a casual fling he could filter his searches to be shown only women also looking for the real deal. What's more, there's no embarrassing matchmaking going on from friends, and there's also no risk of chatting someone up without them realising you're interested. MillionaireLoving is no exception, and in actual fact it's easier to browse profiles on this website than any other. New members or even guests are greeted with simple search criteria chosen with drop down boxes e.g. sexual orientation, from which country, between the ages of… etc. and this takes them to the relevant profiles. If a member is looking for someone more specific they can use the advances search which includes keywords and statuses such as if they are a smoker or what religion they follow.

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I appreciate my husband for many reasons. He's kind, funny, smart, talented and he's still here.

The latter is important because if he weren't, I would be single and you know what that means?

Yes, better night's sleep, less laundry and cracker boxes in the cupboard that actually have crackers in them. But while those are attractive, they don't outweigh the scary idea of dating.

I wonder, is there a personal ad code for bossy, opinionated, neat-freak, misanthropic, virgo woman?

So, where does someone find a date these days?

One guy I know is dating a woman half his age that he met at a dog park. "What do you talk about?" I asked him, unable to disguise my 40ish-woman-finds-an-older-friend-is-dating-a-woman-barely-old-enoug h-to-order-a-beer-in-Baltimore tone.

"Um, our dogs?" he said, adding she seems really mature for her age.

Translation: She's hot.

Another friend turned to a dating service to help make a love connection.

But soon he began to wonder if there were more women than men in the company's database as he was inundated with a steady stream of set-ups.

"It was exhausting," he said, sighing.

One friend embraced the online-dating world -- a world that has numerous specialty sites -- like a love life-preserver ring. In fact, his frequent dips into the online pool became known as his catch- and-release program. He never met his soulmate online, she instead appeared thanks to an introduction from his neighbours.

According to a woman I chat with at my gym, a rabbi at a wedding she attended told the assembled that the bride and groom had met on Lavalife. Apparently that's not shocking news, as the same rabbi told the wedding guests the majority of the people he has married in the last couple years have met via online dating or other services.

"It's rewarding we have lots of success stories, lots of happy clients," said relationship counsellor Rosalyn Dietz of Compatible Introductions (millionairecupid.com). "Success for us means relationships, living together, getting married and kids."

So happy are her clients that Dietz reports that last year alone there were 36 marriages between Compatible Introductions clients.

Currently, Dietz's company has 6,500 registered clients, 1,800 of those active. To join, you are looking at a base rate of around $1,000.

So who signs up for these services?

"We have all kinds of people," says Dietz. "But they are all looking for long-term relationships. They're not just into dating."

"There is no norm in this business," says Brownridge, who is excitedly waiting for the first It's Just Lunch baby to be born. "What they do have in common, though, is they're all busy. That's why companies like us are in business."

 

Do

 

- Make your partner feel comfortable

- Keep the conversation flowing

- Be an interesting date

- Be on time

- Be yourself

- Be confident

- Show respect to your date's suggestions

- Dress for the occasion

- Take time to listen

- Do focus on the person you are with

- Take a pro-active approach. It does not matter who calls who

 

Don't

 

- Talk exclusively about yourself

- Be late

- Talk about an ex-relationship at the first meeting

- Try to be something you are not

- Show disrespect for your partner's beliefs

- Forget to thank them for the date

- Ask too many personal questions

 

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The Internet is playing a big role today in almost every aspect of a human's life. We search for information from the net, we study from e-learning programmes, we use emails to keep in touch with people for both personal and business purposes, while many become hard core fans of the popular chat engines like MSN and Skype.

It's no longer surprising internet has also become a tool for singles to search for their right matches and soul mates. Some directly login to the online dating sites, while many start from social networking internet services such as MySpace, facebook.com, Millionairecupid.com, etc.

Despite many harms known to exist in the cyberworld - like people giving false identities or women reportedly lured into sexual abuses or even murders - a lot of singles are still willing to jump in and the number of online dating sites as well as their members have kept increasing over the years.

April sparks, senior vice-president of Sanook Online Limited, which runs the matchmaking web site seekwealthy.com, says after 10 years of service, the number of users have increased from 30,000 people at the beginning to almost one million at present.

Among them, 300,000 people are active members, meaning they are still using the service within 90 days. The number of users online is about 6,000 per day.

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Why online dating?

April said the Internet has an increased role in love relationship as much it has in other life matters.

"Think of what most people do when they arrive at the office every morning - make a cup of coffee, turn on the computer, check emails and browse web sites. If they are feeling lonely or are heartbroken, then tapping into the online dating sites is a likely choice. The way of life today makes the Internet closer to people, and online matchmaking services easier to access," says April.

 He adds that online dating opens a new channel for the singles to find someone to fulfill their empty lives.

''In the past, it used to be difficult for Thais to meet someone out of their life circles. So we've seen many doctors marry nurses, suppliers marry purchasers, salespersons marry marketing people, or judges marry prosecutors. But the internet helps you break through the old narrow circles of friends to meet a variety of people you've never been involved,'' he explains.

He cites a successful case of a Muslim woman living in Chiang Mai who married a Muslim from the deep South after meeting on Thaimate.

''Had they not logged into the web site, they would have missed the chance to meet each other,'' says April.

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What's a crush?

The appeal of online dating lies with the excitement when you are connected to someone you do not know. For some, chatting online with a stranger living a long distance away may allow them to better express their own selves and attitudes without caring for each other's physical appearances.

One more good point of online dating is that you can search through the web until you find the one you are contented with. Then you may start making contact, wait for the response, and pursue the relationship if you click with that person. If not, you still can quit and keep looking for a better match. Everything depends on your judgement.

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Rules for online dating

As every coin has two sides, online dating also has its pros and cons. Since this kind of relationship develops in a cyberworld, it is difficult for us to know what is and is not true, or whether the persons we talk to are really good or bad. Once we're engaged in online dating, there are a lot of things we have to take into account, and here are some rules for the cyber love.

- Be careful in pursuing a relationship

The risk of online dating is that you can be wooed with sweet words or eloquence that appear on the computer screen, not a personality or appearance that are easier to judge.

It is recommended that you go back to those previous emails since you first contacted each other. Read them carefully. The messages between the lines will tell you something about your date. Has he or she been true to you? And you'll get some clues about what way your relationship is heading for.

- First, clarify the age and status.

Age and marital status are what to be clarified from the beginning. A tricky or dishonest guy will speak hesitantly, or not tell you straightly. If that happens, it's better to click ''delete'' that person so as to screen out those married guys or playboys who only want to play games with you.

- Pay caution to an overly extroverted person

Be careful if your date is so quick to disclose his personal information. This kind of people will push you around and make every attempt to rush the relationship. But things that begin too fast usually end easily too.

Note that online dating is a mutual communication between two persons. It's better to give your relationship some more time, let it grow naturally and gradually.

- Don't rush your relationship

One good point of online dating is that you can take time with your date as long as you want, be it one week, one month or even a year. Nobody can rush you. Make every careful step in your relationship, otherwise a mistake can easily happen. Don't rush to meet a man or a woman just after the first few talks. He or she may not be a person you imagine.

- Be honest to your date

Be yourself and true to your date. Do not overstate your personality to make it sound as if you were a hero or an angel. Your partner may have over-expectation on you, and that may trouble your relationship when you both come out of the cyberworld.

- When having a date, do not go to private places

Once you click with someone on the net, going for a date is unavoidable in most cases as it's a way for both sides to better know each other. Bringing along a friend might not be very useful in case you want to get to know each other well.

For your first date, make sure you'll see each other in a public place. If anything wrong happens, you can ask for helps or run away from the guy.

- Ask yourself what you really want

Study your own feeling. Think of what you really need, a soulmate, a friend, or you're just playing games for fun. If you are serious enough, go on with your date. But in case you already have someone and only want to exercise your charm, keep it to the limit. When you have an online dating, it means you already step into someone else's world, so be careful of each other's feelings, otherwise it can get you in trouble.

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