Online Dating Boom

NOT many industries are doing well in the recession. But along with discount retailers and pawnbrokers, online-dating sites such as eHarmony.com and OkCupid.com have seen business look up. There are several theories to explain why. It may be that people have more time to devote to their private lives as the economy slows; that uncertain times increase the desire for companionship; or that living alone is expensive, whereas couples can split many of their costs.
The Economist report HERE

eHarmony Rejection

Premature Harmony

eHarmony Uses Misleading Lesbian Personals Ads on Facebook...

Since the eHarmony segregated gay personals site won't launch until March 2009...some are wondering what these ads are doing on facebook...
see HERE

The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches.
It must not only implement the new policy by March 31 but also give the first 10,000 same-sex registrants a free six-month subscription.
Los Angeles Times report HERE