Torontoist: Sex and Our City: A Degree of Separation

sloanbuller

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:47:28 -0500

I am the girl who logged on one last time and have been with that one last "smile" for three years. Mind you, I hated online dating. It had a real 'quantity, not quality' feel to it, and people seem to get confuse with what some consider a heightened degree of honest with what I found was more often real shallowness. One fellow, after chatting with me for some time and coming across as fairly polite and all refused to meet me unless I told him my bra size. His rational was that he should be able to get an accurate estimation of my physique before bothering to meet me.

sparkbliss

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:17:33 -0500

After feeble attempts to use popular online dating sites, it became clear my chance of finding meaningful companionship would have to come from somewhere else. Rather than lose hope and give up, I decided to create and launch Sparkbliss (http://www.sparkbliss.com). It offers a private and safe approach to online dating that leverages what has always been the best way to meet people – introductions from your circle of friends. In fact “63% of married couples met through a network of friends” according to a recent Temple University study. Sparkbliss protects your personal privacy rather than surrender control of it. Each member develops a private network of trusted friends and families who can view his/her profile and make romantic introductions on their behalf. Members have complete control over who they invite into their private network. Some people add as many connections as possible, while others are more conservative.

blogUT

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:27:13 -0500

Interesting post. Online dating is certainly a different ball game. Not quite what people would imagine it to be, in general. I actually tried it for a month and (cue shameless self-promotion) wrote up a 6 part series about my experiences here.