How to Flirt Online

What can you say in an email to entice someone to get to coffee talk? You are trying to get to the first date level. So what are the tricks to flirting online?
A 38-year-old female comedian told me, " I don't think it is hard to flirt via email at all. It's like acting. It's very fun to flirt online." Here are some ideas that should help you get to a first date faster.
Three online flirting success keys:

1. Humor is your ally
2. Keep it simple
3. Hand out compliments

10 email flirting questions

• Where did you get that fantastic smile?
• What is your favorite ice cream flavor and why?
• What is the most romantic place that you've been on a date?
• What would you do if we got stuck in a snow storm in the mountains?
• If you were going to take me out for a romantic evening, what would we do?
• What is your favorite thing to do with a partner for fun?
• If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
• How long have you played guitar? (Ask about something in their profile.)
• Wow, is that your cute golden retriever? (Compliment something in their photograph.)
• When are we going to meet to find out whether we would ever want to kiss each other? (Depending on the person, you can sound cute using this one)

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Online child safety initiatives

A big topic of discussion lately is the increasingly large influence media of all kinds can have in the lives of children and teens. Last week I participated in a conference in New York about this important issue, sponsored by CommonSense Media and The Aspen Institute together with several organizations that have a stake in child safety. (Here are videos of the speakers.)

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Love Knows No Borders

comScore Networks recently reported that 22 percent of Internet users, age 15 and older, visiting online personals sites in December 2006 were in France, followed by the British with 20 percent and the Americans with 13 percent.
In the U.K., the most popular site is DatingDirect.com (recently acquired by France's most popular personals site MeetIC) with 1.4 million U.K. visitors in December '06. Yahoo! Personals leads the category in the U.S., with 4.5 million U.S. visitors, age 15 or older. In addition, the only site included in the ranking of the top online personals sites in at least two countries is Match.com.

Top Personals Sites in the U.K. (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in U.K. (Age 15+) 29,788
Personals Category Total 5,836
DATINGDIRECT.COM 1,427
LOOPYLOVE.COM 960
GIRLSDATEFORFREE.COM 618
Match.com Sites 510
INTERRODATE.CO.UK 452


Top Personals Sites in France (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in France (Age 15+) 24,409
Personals Category Total 5,317
MeetIC 2,258
Easyrencontre 724
CAPFRIENDS.FR 369
2BECOME1-FR.COM 337
MSN Dating & Personals 299


Top Personals Sites in the U.S. (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)Source: comScore Media Metrix
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in the U.S. (Age 15+) 152,350
Personals Category Total 20,555
Yahoo! Personals 4,153
Match.com Sites** 3,970
TRUE.COM 3,086
Spark Networks 2,504
SINGLESNET.COM 2,173

Source: comScore World Metrix
Note: Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes and access from mobile phones or PDAs and traffic from (other) sites powered by Match.com

Where the Women Are Online

Ever go to a bar and say, "What a sausage party"?

Internet dating sites can be the same way. But a Hitwise report based on Internet visits suggests there are a few online dating destinations with way more women.
Still, among more widely trafficked sites, eHarmony has a far higher ratio of women to men, with 68.6 percent of visits coming from women. “It’s a boon for men,” LeeAnn Prescott, research director for Hitwise, said of eHarmony.

What else are women attracted to? They appear to be into sites for local hookups, Catholic dates, Latin men, and sugar daddies. That’s judging by the popularity of such sites as LocalHookUpz, 69.2 percent female visited, CatholicMatch.com, 72 percent, LatinAmericanCupid.com, 72.9 percent, and Sugar Daddie, 68.3 percent. Sugar Daddie’s web site boasts a service for millionaires, CEOs, lawyers, and benefactors.

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