[Dating Papers]

Its often the case that people on dating sites are bombarded with messages and their inbox quickly gets filled with junk. Linnea wrote about one of her own experiences with this recently

I figured that was enough for the night, and decided it was time for bed. I think I had several nightmares last night revolving around instant messages, but it was still a restful sleep. I checked my email this morning and I had 64 new messages. I think about 60 of them were from Plenty of Fish.

I checked out a few of the emails and they are from people all over the country, and even a couple from other countries. They want to “chat” and would “like to get to know me better.” I can’t understand how anyone can build a real relationship with someone living in Australia or even Ohio for that matter. What are these people expecting to accomplish? I love to chat with random strangers, but I guess this was just a little overwhelming.

I guess I have discovered the downfall of free internet dating. Now I just have to discover how to stop the message notifications, so I don’t have to empty out my Inbox every morning.

Thankfully, we will only send you messages when both of you want to communicate!

Pete and TJ have been talking about the lack of new ideas in the dating world

For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. They all use the same simple-minded model. They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how to do database matches instead of how dating works in the real world. An undergrad could build something better as a class project. And yet there’s a lot of money at stake. Online dating is a valuable business now, and it might be worth a hundred times as much if it worked.

Ferris Research add to the current situation by saying

Just a quick thought—it seems to me that the economic incentive for a dating website to provide a good service is broken. Most businesses thrive on repeat business, or a regular cashflow from a subscription model. Customer retention being less expensive than customer acquisition, as any MBA could tell you.

We agree and have decided to do something about it. Check out how we predict relationships, or what we think of the idea of a sixth sense.

Hello everyone

This is the first post on the Sixth Sense dating blog. We’re setting up what we think is a new approach to dating and matchmaking - we’re predicting relationships between people before they meet or in our case, are introduced to each other! Here’s some blurb from the homepage

At Sixth Sense dating we believe that finding the right partner is a far more complex and subtle process than this. In order to reflect this belief, we use a unique, cutting edge personality questionnaire which in addition to telling us about yourself and your own personality reveals subconsciously the characteristics and personality traits of your ideal partner. This is a completely new concept and allows us the ability to predict the outcome of relationships before people even meet each other.

Happy dating…