(Online Dating Industry Journal) New online dating service DatingAndDating.com has just put out a release announcing their service and their focus "on providing visual and qualitative measures in criteria used to connect members." According to DatingAndDating.com, "with these measures, members will be able to trust other members, and first date expectations have more potential to be fulfilled."
DatingAndDating.com quotes keynote statistics that 61% of online dating customers are concerned that members are misrepresenting themselves. With that in mind, DatingAndDating.com have come up with at least one mentionable way to help users to more accurately depict themselves. Rather than just choosing "a few extra pounds" or "slim and slender" as your body type, you can choose from 9 different body type icons to show a visual representation of what you interpret to be "a few extra pounds". Of course icons can't represent all of the many shapes and sizes that online daters come in, but it could help users distinguish between slender and scrawny or pleasantly plump and obese.
Kim's Comments:
As much as some wouldn't like to admit it, a big part of online matchmaking is physical. You can't even get a response to your profile without a picture. Keeping that in mind, any way that online dating sites can help to ease the anxiety about misrepresentation is a positive move, although I think there will inevitably be some level of mistrust and misrepresentation no matter how specific our profile choices become.
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