Think of it as online dating for the lazy.

CoffeeMeetsBagel.com, which launched in Boston on Thursday, searches friends of your friends on Facebook and sends one single’s profile with a photo each day at noon. You have 24 hours to click “pass” or acknowledge interest.

“We wanted to provide a platform (in which) people don’t have to spend a lot of time on it,” said Arum Kang, 29, a recent Harvard Business School grad who co-founded the site with her sisters, twin Dawoon Kang, 29, and Soo Kang, 31. “What we don’t want is people meeting for meaningless hookups.”

The site first launched in New York on Valentine’s Day, with plans to expand to other cities nationwide. The Big Apple network has about 3,000 users — mostly between the ages of 25 and 35 — while Boston has started with about 200, Arum Kang said.

“We’re growing by about 25 percent on a

Article source: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1061132845&srvc=business&position=recent

/EINPresswire.com/ Many singles are nervous to try online dating, citing one reason or another not to create a profile and start looking for love. Mate1.com, a popular dating site, is refuting these reasons and shedding light on the benefits that creating a profile can provide for anyone.

Online dating used to be something people did not talk about. The belief was that no one who had a healthy social life took to the Internet to find a mate. Now, times have changed. Online dating has hit the mainstream in a big way and the world of Internet dating has opened up faster, better ways to meet people. Also, people are busier than ever, and searching for a partner in the traditional way takes time they do not have. They are also pickier and looking for specific kinds of people that their local dating pool simply may not contain. Today, Internet dating

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Finding love online isn’t easy. The prospect of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right seems to turn everyone into porn star used car salesmen. Luckily for you, dear dater, Vice’s Brian Moylan knows exactly what everyone’s lying about.

Romantic relationships are just a litany of lies. “Sure, I’d love to see a Katherine Heigl movie.” “We’re just, like, you know, friends.” But before you shack up with a partner and the pants are really on fire, we have to get through that festering sore of omissions, obfuscations, half-truths, and fabrications that is the online dating profile. To make life easier, I’m going to break down the biggest lies that everyone tells on their profiles. You’ve been warned.

Pictures

Everyone’s pictures are absolute bullshit. But, like unhappy families, they’re all bullshit in their own way. There are a lot like this one, which is so vague and

Article source: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/05/the-lies-everyone-tells-on-dating-sites/

/EINPresswire.com/ Many singles are nervous to try online dating, citing one reason or another not to create a profile and start looking for love. Mate1.com, a popular dating site, is refuting these reasons and shedding light on the benefits that creating a profile can provide for anyone.

Online dating used to be something people did not talk about. The belief was that no one who had a healthy social life took to the Internet to find a mate. Now, times have changed. Online dating has hit the mainstream in a big way and the world of Internet dating has opened up faster, better ways to meet people. Also, people are busier than ever, and searching for a partner in the traditional way takes time

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