Popular Posts

Belgium's former PM reveals quite a personal Twitter-message to public followers

Belgium's former PM Yves Leterme caused a stirr amongst Twitterati by posting quite a personal message on his public Twitter-account early this morning. The messsage said : "Goodmorning "Boe".... I'm only getting out of bed right now". The former PM, actually working in Paris, unvoluntarily provoked thoughts of his unfortunate French collegue. Spring definitely has begun in Paris.


Februari topmaand voor afspraakjes en dating

In februari worden bijna dubbel zoveel afspraakjes gemaakt op datingsites als in een gemiddelde maand. Dat blijkt uit het Extensive European Dating Report 2013 : "In een gewone maand komt het tot 1 afspraakje per 10 contacten op een datingsite. In februari stijgt dat cijfer spectaculair: 1 op 6 contacten leidt tot een ontmoeting in het echte leven", schrijven de onderzoekers.

 
Voor het Dating Report vergeleek een team van Nederlandse, Belgische en Zweedse wetenschappers de datingpraktijken van 4.000 vrouwen en mannen die actief zijn op Facebook en één van de 4 grootste Europese datingsites.

Er zijn meerdere redenen voor de piek in afspraakjes in februari. "Tijdens de eindejaarsfeesten worden singles met de neus op de feiten gedrukt. In januari kijken ze rond in hun sociale kring. Velen zetten de stap naar online dating als ze een maand later "nog altijd" geen relatie hebben. Ook de buzz rond Valentijnsdag is een extra aanzet om sneller in te gaan op een uitnodiging voor een afspraakje", legt hoofdonderzoeker Herald Formussen uit.

Op Facebook ligt de succesratio behoorlijk lager: "Op de sociaalnetwerksite gaat slechts 1 op 30 mensen in op een uitnodiging om af te spreken. De gedeeltelijke anonimiteit van echte datingsites maakt dat vrouwen sneller "ja" zeggen", aldus Formussen.

Vrijdag is trouwens de beste dag om een afspraakje met succes af te ronden, zo blijkt ook uit de studie. Bij een eerste afspraakje brengen de partners samen de nacht door in gemiddeld 17% van de dates. « Op vrijdagen stijgt dat percentage tot 34%. Dan hebben de mensen een heel week-end voor zich. De stress van de agenda valt even weg", verklaart psychologe Helena Störmund van de vakgroep Gedragspsychologie van de Zweedse Skövde-universiteit.

Het  Extensive European Dating Report 2013 (EEDR13) werd gemaakt door de European Research Workgroup on Dating, een samenwerking van wetenschappers van de Zweedse Skövde-universiteit, de Nederlandse hogeschool van Utrecht, de VUB en de Universiteit van Florence. Voor het EED-rapport ondervroeg het team via een online survey 2.321 vrouwen en 1.679 mannen die een abonnement van minstens één maand hadden op één van de vier grootste Europese datingsites. De onderzoekers contacteerden ook mannen en vrouwen om anoniem hun dating-ervaringen te vertellen, zodat de cijfers in hun context konden geplaatst worden.

LatinEuro Introductions


LatinEuro Introductions is an international dating service where American and European men can meet and date with thousands of Latin, Brazilian, Columbian, Mexican, and Dominican girls. Of course you can understand why it's called "LatinEuro" introductions. The site proposes different communication tools for dating, love, friendship, romance and marriage. 

Latin introductions is the beste datingsite for Latin lovers. Most of its male members are Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, Argentinian, or from the Dominican Republic.

JDate

JDate is a dating site that focuses since 10 years on Jewish singles for finding a love relationship or a marriage. Dating sites for people based on a community or their religious or lifestyle views are becoming increasingly popular. JDate has been ranked among the 20 most popular dating platforms since 2010.

JDate makes it possible to find friends, make connections, date and find a soul mate amongst the thousands of members in your country and around the world.

Features of JDate include the posting of photos, email, chat, IM. JDate reassures that all tools ar « all within the faith », and organises travel trips.

The Jewish dating service of J Date is very popular in the United States, Israel, Canada and the United Kingdom. New York and Los Angeles are cities JDate is very popular in.

IndianDating - popular in India, UK and USA

IndianDating.com is an Indian datingsite who offers profiles for «  Indian matrimonials » or « Indian dating ». Indian Dating is online since 2000, and seems to be the number 1 Indian datesite where young Indians and Americans meet. 

Indiandating focuses on hindu dating, and has 90% of members living in India, and 10% in the USA and the UK. 

Indiandating.com is one of the largest indian dating websites, who organises singles events as well. The interface ressembles Western dating-sites. Indian Dating screens profiles for safety and security.

FriendFinder - where Indians, Chinese and Asians meet

You could call Friendfinder the online dating service of the south of the globe. Friend Finder is one of the first dating sites, established in 1998. Frindfinder, of "FF", is a popular dating site with a very international community, much people of India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan and Philippines who are looking for a love, a flirt or a stable relationship. 


Freind Finder is amongst the most popular websites in the cities of Colombo (#974), Jakarta (#1,112), and Islamabad (#1,198). The Friend Finder group has made spin-off datingsites specifically for India, "indianfriendfinder.com", Germany, "germanfriendfinder.com", and Asia: "asianfriendfinder.com". In France, it's called "FrenchFriendfinder.com".



Friendfinder is very popular in Asia, Latin-America, and muslim countries in Africa and Asia. The site has an easy interface and is a mix of Facebook and a conventionale datingsite. Friend-finder.com does not have the sleeky design of European online dating, such as Meetic.

eHarmony - stable relationships and marriage

eHarmony is the right dating-site to find a long term relationship or marriage. eHarmony works by matching of personality tests, based on 30 dimensions. The aim of eHarmony is to get you a traditional comitted relationship between compatible partners. eHarmony is one of the biggest and most longstanding datingservices, especially popular in the US, Canada and the UK.
 
On eHarmony you can't search online profiles. But if you fill in the detailed questionnaire, you receive a list of people who match with you. These people have the same expectations about long-term relationships. They are looking for the kind of person you are! eHarmony thinks personality is more important than physical appearances. This is a quite different approach from most online dating services, where the pictures, and the beauties, are in the first place. 

Answering eHarmony's long questionnaire takes some time, but eventually produces some interesting results. eHarmony only proposes heterosexual relationships.

The dating service for heterosexual men and women was founded by a psychologist. He was tired of seeing broken marriages, and wanted to counsel on how to build a good, stable, long-lasting relationship.

 

Dating Direct - UK number 1 dating site

Dating Direct is the UK version of Meetic. Datingdirect is known as the biggest online dating site in the United Kingdom. The dating-site Dating Direct has around 6 million single women and men as a member, which is about 10 % of the UK population. 

The interface of Dating Direct is excellent, it leads you to play around and search in a very playful and intuitive way. you get quite quickly a list of several « favorite » profiles. You can let them know by mail that you have visited their profiles. This leads up to quick contacts between online daters. 

Dating Direct offers the possibility to easily put your pictures online. You can also record a video to give a live presentation of yourself. This doubles the numbers of success in having a date. 

The search criteria on DatingDirect include age, region, but keywords too. DirectDating has a matching service as well, this is called Affinity. You can ask your own questions to people visiting your profile with the « Personal Quiz ». 

At some rainy days, DatingDirect has up to 10.000 daters online and active. Enjoy! 

Relatieplanet - betrouwbaar en grootste van Nederland

"Relatieplanet" is de grootste dating site in Nederland, en heeft ook veel Belgische vrouwen en mannen als lid. "Relatieplanet" wordt vooral gebruikt door serieuze vrijgezellen, mannen en vrouwen, die op zoek naar een eerlijke relatie. Relatieplanet is een betrouwbare datingsite met zeer professionele en vriendelijke omkadering.

Op Relatieplanet vind je van alles. Je vindt er mensen op zoek naar liefde, vriendschap, huwelijk, verloving, maar ook de jongere casual dating.

Relatieplanet dating heeft een andere, meer gezellige look dan de meeste datingsites. Met veel warme kleuren en kleine knopjes ziet Relatieplanet.nl er gewoon gezellig uit. Het is ook een heel verzorgde en vriendelijke site. Op Relatieplanet.nl kan je tot 10 persoonlijke foto's bij je profiel plaatsen.

Relatieplanet.nl heeft een aantal jaar geleden het relatiebemiddelingsbureau Iwannadate.nl overgenomen. Relatieplaneet werd verkozen tot « website van het jaar » in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 èn 2013! De datingsite heeft het meest actieve gebruikers volgens een wetenschappelijk onderzoek van Start2date.

Relatieplanet nl kost ongeveer 25 euro per maand. Je hebt wel een handige « trial »-versie waarbij de site kunt proberen en je zelfs enkele berichten volledig gratis kan sturen. Het volledige lidmaatschap is betalend.

Relatieplanet heeft naar eigen zeggen 100.000 bezoekers per dag en 30.000 nieuwe leden per maand. Aan dat ritme zit binnen 3 jaar heel volwassen Nederland op de site!

Relatieplanet dating staat al meer dan 5 jaar aan de top van de sites van relatiebemiddelingsbureaus. De hollandse site heeft ook het meest actieve gebruikers in Nederland, België en Luxemburg (Benelux). De tweede grootste datingsite in Nederland is Lexa, dat bij de Meetic-groep hoort. Lexa heeft bijna evenveel bezoeken als Relatieplanet dating, maar het aantal actieve gebruikers is veel groter bij Relatieplanet nl. Relatieplanet heeft met zijn versie relatieplanet.be ook het meeste Belgische daters van alle Hollandse datingsites. Parship, Match en Be2 hebben heel veel leden in een groter aantal landen dan Nederland en Belgie alleen.

ChnLove

ChnLove.asi is one of the biggest dating sites in the huge Chinese market. ChnLove offers Premier Chinese datingservices with tens of dating personals traditional, sweet Chinese women and decent ladies who look for dating, romance, friendship, love, partnerships, marriages and more with – eventuallywestern - single men. The system is quite different from other dating sites. The information of the Chinese members is verified by local agencies in China. Communications are followed up. ChnLove is also known as Chinese-Lady.com.

Chemistry - find love with a test

Do the test and find the one you like ! Chemistry.com is a datingservice of Match.com that matches people after testing their personality. The test is quite fun to do and leads to a longlist of matching people. The profiles of online daters are not searchable. Chemistry has lots of urban singles in New York, Los Angeles and London, and is acquiring european members, women and men, rapidly.

Casual Kiss

Casual Kiss is a 100 % free social networking and dating service for young people. It has a relaxed attitude. No boring "sign in"-pages, from the homepage you immediately get pictures of potential partners.

You can get your profile online in less than 5 minutes on casualkiss.com. There's also a chatroom, free of charge. Basically, the idea is the same as the idea behind Facebook: you can make a free profile, and start immediately to search for casual dating, kissing, flirting or even a serious relationschip or marriage. 

Casualkiss.com has huge international connections for young people. Trendy and hip interface with much students online. Most popular in Canada and the USA. Casual Kiss differs from more serious dating-sites by having funny categories: in « Religion » you can choose « Jedi Knight ». In relationship wanted: « Taken and play ». Mostly english-speaking people.

BBPeopleMeet

BBPeopleMeet: Big and Beautiful, that is what the « BB » in BBPeople stands for. The online dating site BBPeopleMeet is a welcome initiative to bring men and women who have some weight together. 

As such, this online dating service is an interesting alternative to the "traditional" dating sites such as Match.com and Meetic.com, who tend to disadvantage people who have more weight than the average. 

The datingsite is well build. BBPeopleMeet doesn't have a name that is easy to remember. But it has a loyal crowd of active members. An online dating-site specially for people with some pounds more. Popular, BBPMeet is one of the top-20 american dating sites.

And remember the song of Mika: "big girls, you are beautiful !"

AsiaFriendFinder

AsiaFriendFinder is a big datingsite who promises « Love, friendship and more » to the women and men who are member. This dating service seems to be the largest online dating site for the Asian region, having 15 millions of male and female members looking for the love of their life or some casual dating.

AsiaFriendFinder (or AFF) provides a very secure platform for online dating and chatting. It has all the tools, lots of them are free: blog, chat, profile search to connect Asians. Most o the women on AFF live in China, Japan, the Phillipines, Malaysia, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Oceania. Lots of women are looking for friendship, romance or marriage.

You can create your personal Hotlist with your favourite contacts on AsiaFriendFinder. Video is possible, and voice messages as well. Silver membership is only 15$ a month. AsiaFriendFinder is the most popular site of Kuala Lumpur.

Amigos.com

Amigos.com is amongst the most popular online dating websites and services for Latino and Latina singles. Amigos.com figures among the top-20 of dating sites internationally. The free chat section of amigos, called chat.amigos.com, is tremendously popular amongst Latino men looking for « mujeres » and Latino dating.

Amigos is the best dating site of Spanish-speaking people of Latin-America, Hispanics in the US, and Spanish single women from all over the world. « Amor y romance para latinos en el mundo », is the baseline of Amigo.com, which is particularly popular in Bresil, Peru, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and Argentina. Amigos.com is part of the FriendFinder.com group.

AfroIntroductions.com

AfroIntroductions.com is a very popular dating service for the cities on the African continent. It is linked with 2 million members through the Cupid Media network. You can find lots of African personals of men and women online.

Browsing on this dating site is free, communication through email and chat is paid.
The dating site aims at relationshis of dating, love and marriage.

Afro Introductions is a division of Cupid Media Network, a network of datingsites who  focuses on target groups and niche markets based on ethnicity, sexual preference, religion, physical appearance or special interests. 20 million customers in total are member of one of the Cupidmedia dating sites in Latin America,  Asia, Africa, Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Pacific.

AfrikaDating.com

AfrikaDating.com has members looking for love living in Kenya, Nigeria, South-Africa, Ghana, Benin, Malawi and mostly English-speaking countries of the African continent. AfrikaDating is a free dating site. For a particular reason, this southern dating site seems also to be articular popular site in the city of Abidjan.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair is the online dating site with the most original name. A Foreign Affair specialises in « foreign affairs » between Western american and european daters, mostly men, with Asian, South American and Eastern European partners, mostly women looking for free dating.The domain name of the dating site is "http://www.loveme.com/". AFA organises "dating tours" in southerne countries. 

Ashley Madison dating

Now this is straightforward the way we like it! Hidden behind a very bourgeois sounding name, « AshleyMadison Agency », the very classy designed dating site says : « Life is short. Have an affair ».

Miles away from eHarmony's roses and moonshine, the « cheating » site for married men and women starts with « What is your relationship status?». Ashley Madison Dating stirred some controversy on CNN who made a documentary on adultery, housewives who are cheating on their men.

Ashley Madison, known by its passionate followers as « AMA", also proposes the more naughty version with ads saying « Looking for an affair? ».

That way, it competes with SecondLove, Mate1.com and Q-dating.com for the daters who like casual dates and the married people who are looking for infidelity with a second artner, be it female or male.

The site « guarantees an affair ». Cute. With more than 5 million married men and women, AshleyMadison is one of the most popular websites in the US. Unfortunately only in Australia, Canada, US and the UK. The Ashley Madison dating site is definitely on of the top dating sites. Very popular in London, New York and Los Angeles.

If you are looking for some fun and asssion this year, definitely worth a visit !

Search

Blog Archive

Translate