Dating season!
New year, new relationship? This seems to be the logic of many singles who log on to dating websites during January with a renewed sense of focus. According to Mashable, it is high season for online dating. There is something about seeing all the happy couples getting engaged during the holidays that kind of makes you want something meaningful.
Even if you are not crazy about the idea of meeting someone online, it really makes a lot of sense in simple numbers. Think of it as increasing your connections with other people. Meeting new people, period can lead to other opportunities. More invites to social events, networking functions, and even introductions to relatives of people. After all, you know your new man or woman won’t just arrive on your doorstep, right?
What are you doing to prepare for dating season? Let’s share ideas on new and fun ways to connect with single people. Do you have a favorite new activity, bar, or event that is conducive to a successful dating season?
Happy Friday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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159 comments Add your comment
Leggs
January 4th, 2013
10:52 am
Lee ~ I still don’t know (lol). The husband on the show said something to the effect of cat fish helping a weaker fish survive. Cat fish makes you stay on your toes (alert). Scams online, that’s the bottom line.
Button
January 4th, 2013
10:53 am
Lee – Catfish: The TV Show is an American reality-based docudrama television series airing on MTV about the truths and lies of online dating. The show is based on the 2010 film Catfish and is hosted by Nev Schulman. It premiered on November 12, 2012
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
10:53 am
Leggs was that the one with the hair coat on (lmao)
SlimNu - More of me, less of you
January 4th, 2013
10:53 am
I think Kim Khardashian paved the way and gave a whole new meaning to 15 minutes of fame. She made folks think, no matter how low i go, I can make something out of acting like a damn fool, having sex on camera or redneckinizing to start some money-making career…or at least for a little while (easy route).
Button
January 4th, 2013
10:54 am
Lee – A “catfish” is a person who creates fake profiles online and pretends to be someone they are not by using someone else’s pictures and information. These “catfish” use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, usually with the intention of getting other people or a person to fall in love with them.
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
10:56 am
Leggs, online scams are just updated versions of old scams, IE: I need to get some money out of my country send me your banking information = I found a bag of money and if you give me yours in good fate we can split it. New twist same ole scam
kimmie
January 4th, 2013
10:56 am
Morning Blog Gang!!
Just popped in to say hello! Got a lot of work I am determined to finish TODAY!!
Button
January 4th, 2013
10:57 am
@ Single -yet there are thousands upon thousands who fall for it each and every time.
disco
January 4th, 2013
10:59 am
I’m amazed that I am still amazed at how many folks actually watch all this reality stuff. lol. my friends are always saying “it’s like so and so” and I’m like “who is so and so” and so and so is always some reality tv person.
Bluzgirl
January 4th, 2013
11:00 am
I’m totally hooked on the Catfish show. The last one I watched was a girl who fell in love with what she thought was a man and he ended up being a transgender. Amazingly, they actually worked out and remained in a relationship! I think that’s the only success story they’ve shown so far.
I cannot understand how these people will “fall in love” with someone they’ve never met in person. There is no way I would put my heart out there like that. There are way too many scammers…
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:01 am
lol…disco, it’s one of my many guilty pleasure
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:02 am
I saw that one Bluzgirl, that was jaw dropping
Lee
January 4th, 2013
11:03 am
Thanks for the information. I really don’t watch TV , i have netflix and really into watching DR. Who. I don’t care for reality tv.
disco
January 4th, 2013
11:05 am
button – a lot of people own it as a guilty pleasure. some people really are into it because they relate or strive to relate. I don’t get it but to each his own.
pet peeve – folks who lick their fingers and rifle through pages on the printer. I don’t care if I don’t see it but don’t do it in front of me and then want to hand me the papers that you spit on. just plain nasty.
Bluzgirl
January 4th, 2013
11:10 am
disco – I gotta say that it’s my guilty pleasure also. I’m hooked on several reality shows. I think it’s because I don’t have to think at all! LOL! Also, makes me see that my life could be a lot worse!
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:10 am
well I for one don’t relate or strive to relate to rachetness! lol pure entertainment as I see it just as any other show/movie on the tube. I don’t strive to relate to any lifetime movie or snap but I watch those just as well.
Leggs
January 4th, 2013
11:10 am
You’re right Single. Only thing that changes with the “game” are the players!!
I’ve only seen one episode of Catfish and that was because my guest wanted to watch it. I literally was scratching my head.
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
11:11 am
Disco, for me the reality are great when I need a good laugh, but to be getting all up up in those folks lives, aint happening, and even with that there are alot of them I just can’t watch.
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
11:13 am
Button you know we all want something for nothing (LOL)
SlimNu - More of me, less of you
January 4th, 2013
11:13 am
disco – OMG, I have that same pet peeve!!!! Then when they hand you the paper, you can clearly see a wet spit thumb print on the corner of the paper. Just YUCK
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:14 am
those shows should be a learning tool of how NOT to act in certian situations.
disco
January 4th, 2013
11:15 am
button – don’t ask why but every time I look at your name today I think of that childhood game button. “button, button, how do you wander from one hand into the other”. lol.
s/h – that’s me. I just can’t watch that stuff. I don’t want to watch that stuff. I don’t understand the draw for why other people want to watch that stuff. and don’t get me wrong, I LIKE drama and foolishness. lol.
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:16 am
@ Single – Name on that you just can’t watch?
Leggs
January 4th, 2013
11:17 am
I don’t understand the draw for why other people want to watch that stuff. – The draw is nothing short of being nosey!
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
11:18 am
Disco, when it gets to be too much drama, that’s when it’s time for me to turn, only good for a laugh.
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
11:20 am
Button, The Kardasians, the Braxtons, Tia and Tamara, Bridzilla, the one about the wedding dresses, shall I go own (LOL)
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
11:21 am
Button the people that can learn from them are the ones who think they don’t act like that.
disco
January 4th, 2013
11:23 am
leggs – let my momma tell it, I’m nosey.
s/h – by the way, I’m certainly not calling out the blog folks but how about how folks talk about these reality people and their goings on like they are real people that they actually know. I can’t tell you how many times I chimed in with a “who? what? huh” only to find out it’s some reality tv junk. here I was all prepped to here some good gossip about somebody and it’s some fake mess. lol.
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:26 am
oh gosh I don’t like those either except for bridzilla, but I’ll add teen moms to your list and don’t forget hippty hoppty of atlanta.
LOL @ Disco
for me the draw is just like any other show, entertainment.
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:32 am
disco maybe you’re putting too much eggs in one baket.
abc
January 4th, 2013
11:34 am
Reality TV depicts the sad state of American culture and society. Every one of them is about some freak show of a person, or group of people. I suppose people watch just as they’d slow down and rubberneck a car wreck. Seems to me the ones that watch them are probably freak shows themselves — I mean, how about a book, or a nice game of backgammon, chess, gin? Really, there must be better things to do than watch the junk that’s on TV, isn’t there? I swear, I really don’t know why I continue to pay for cable, that in itself is pretty stupid on my own part.
Leggs
January 4th, 2013
11:34 am
Button ~ now, hip hop of atl is pure d entertainment. Shameful, but still entertainment.
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:35 am
Only person I’ve actually met in real life is Pheadra and that was years ago at my son’s school career day program. We hit if off quite well, we found out we lived right around the corner from each other, she gave me her business card but I never called her. oh well it’s good to know she’s doing well.
abc
January 4th, 2013
11:36 am
Actually, the Reality TV appeal might be something similar to Facebook: both exhibitionism on behalf of those that crave the attention, and voyeurism on behalf of those that look at it.
SlimNu - More of me, less of you
January 4th, 2013
11:38 am
I’ve just started watching Scandal because I kept hearing so much about it..(haven’t seen the first season though)
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:39 am
ouch abc! hmmm reality show can make a brotha made can’t it.
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:39 am
mad not made
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:41 am
voyeurism?? sir you’re digging wayyyy too deep
Robert
January 4th, 2013
11:52 am
“Let’s share ideas on new and fun ways to connect with single people.”
In ATL a man must be lazy, gay or on the down-low to pay his money to an on-line dating site. There are too many beautiful women with jobs, houses and cars who are financially secure looking for a good straight, working man. That is a fact.
The best places are free places to meet men and women. For example my New Year’s resolution is to eat right and excercise. Rather than go to a fast food joint I will go to the grocery store (Publix). I have met some great women shopping for fruit and vegetables. I hope to met some of you on this blog soon at the grocery store (Leggs, SlimNu, Button, etc.) lol. Working out can be fun too and you can meet some nice folks.
Leggs
January 4th, 2013
11:53 am
I see nothing wrong with voyeurism.
Scandal is an excellent show!
Button
January 4th, 2013
11:57 am
Single I dare shop at publix or any grocery food chain! Farmer’s market all day everyday! eat fresh!
LOL
January 4th, 2013
12:00 pm
LOL ut oh
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
12:41 pm
ABC, have you meet Robert??
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
12:48 pm
Okay why is it that when someone has their reasons (insecurities about themselves) about things they will not do, they try to project them on everyone that doesn’t do it their way?
Button
January 4th, 2013
12:49 pm
I’on no Single, why is that?
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
12:52 pm
button I’m a I’ll do what makes me happy type of guy, and you do what makes you happy. so I really can’t answer that one.
abc
January 4th, 2013
12:57 pm
You imply that I’m somehow insecure because I think that American attention span and cultural maturity is lacking? Ha. Watch Hoarders, buy a Kanye song, whatever. I manage to be entertained in other ways. Psy? Call Me Maybe? Just say no, unless you’re 13, in which case, just say no.
Here’s something I find remarkable though: in spite of how dumb Americans (and the world for that matter) seem to be now, in 1950 the average IQ was 25 points lower. I guess Uncle Milty wasn’t exactly high brow entertainment either.
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
1:05 pm
ABC not implying, I’m saying it. For what ever reason you chose not to do something is your reason, and your only, just because you can find a few that agree with you still doesn’t make it so. Like you said you CHOOSE to be entertained in other ways, why does that make everyone else’s choices wrong?
Button
January 4th, 2013
1:11 pm
Single some people…never mind
Single and Happy
January 4th, 2013
1:14 pm
Button (LOL)