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DATING SITES TAKING OFFLINE APPROACHES TO HELP PEOPLE FIND POTENTIAL MATES


Dating sites have been known for helping people to find a potential mate through their online system. Their main goals were focused on increasing the intensity of online communication between two people who could be each other’s soul mates. But now, things have changed and dating sites are focusing more on helping people get their relationships to the offline level. The regular guides and tips for dating  have also started to change gradually. Experts these days suggest on how to impress your online dating partner after meeting them in person. Yes this is the current trend of dating sites.

AARP,  a 54 year old non profit organization is offering services to the matures. The group has 38 million users of which around 10 million are single. More than half of the group’s single members are less than 70 years old. The organization is making the preparations on launching their own dating enterprise in partnership with a website called howaboutwe.com. The website contrives new ideas for interesting dates and helps potential partners to go out together.

 

The main idea was to build an offline dating site where people could easily agree on a date as said by Brian Schechter, cofounder of Howaboutwe.com. People can suggest on ideas for a date. Like, one can suggest on a date starting with coffee ending with wine with some art and culture in between. They can then have this idea implemented by howaboutwe.com and find a partner who is interested in the proposal.

AARP’s main goal on partnering with howaboutwe.com is to focus more on the components that online dating hasn’t been able to deliver well. Online dating hasn’t been able to provide a reality check on several items which AARP aims to fulfill in partnership with howaboutwe.com.

Not just AARP but many online dating sites are now focusing on offline events where likeminded people can meet each other and go out if interested. The top names in the online dating industry such as match.com and okcupid.com have started to focus on offline dating arranged via online means. The retro approach actually lets people to meet an interesting potential mate in person and have a personal connection. Another site called Grouper arranges something resembling the old “Double Date”. Offline dating approaches of online dating sites has enabled the digitally depended daters to take lead in offline dating.

You might not even want to call the people you meet through blind dating as dates. It can’t even be called online dating because actually, the online part is already taken away from it and there’s nothing online about it.


So, do you like this approach taken by online dating sites?

 

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