I never dated online, but I’m sure if I was single, I’d be all up in that e-Harmony Love You Long Time site.  I generally hate bars and don’t like the music they play at the dance clubs.  Online would be the place for me.

In this day and age of widespread digital video, I think it would be almost essential for these dating sites to offer video hosting.  Video is all around us.  We can grab video on our digital cameras, our phones, our laptops.  We’re all plugged in and we’re all filming each other doing really crazy shit.

Video profiles would allow potential daters an added dimension in meeting each other for the first time.  A lot of things can get mis-communicated or misunderstood in emails and text, especially when you’re trying to date someone.  Much of the underlying meaning in our real life conversations come from tonal inflections, facial expressions, body language, not just the words we use.  These are difficult to translate through just text.  Video profiles and Q&A vlogs would give users a better understanding of their potential date than text on a screen.

Of course, the idea is not without flaw.  Some of us are horribly camera shy.  In person, you might be a freaking mac daddy!  But if you’re afraid of looking like an idiot on video, your video profile will not represent the real you.  Still, I think it would be a nice idea to see some of these dating sites implement.

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