Tinder - How It Changed the Dating Game Forever

There's no underestimating how much Tinder has changed the way we meet people. An estimated 50 million people have signed up to Tinder and it is available in 24 languages! However, meeting people on Tinder is very different to real life and there are some major differences between the two. For example, not everyone looks as amazing in the pub as they do on Tinder, and the opening lines can be very different!

There are also some strange men and women that many of us will have met on Tinder. We've all met the guy who is only there for sex, and he makes that very clear in his opening message! The guys out there might have come across the women who suddenly disappear just when you're having a great chat! The infographic below captures these changes very well...

How to Turbocharge Your Online Dating Profile - Infographic

Having trouble attracting the attention you deserve on dating sites? Maybe your profile just needs a tweak or two. There are specific types of photos, words, and phrases that will make you instantly more enticing to the opposite sex. Once you know what they are, you can grab the ones that accurately describe you and drop them front and center in your profile. Review Weekly has compiled data from eHarmony, OkCupid, and other sources into a handy infographic that could turbocharge your social life.

Before and After - How Online Dating has Changed Relationships (Infographic)

The world of dating has really changed over the last few years and the ubiquity of dating apps and sites are really driving this. To this end, Carvaka decided it might be a good idea to prepare an infographic on the area to help people around the world improve their sex lives and relationships..

Finding the Perfect Date Online

If you are single, black woman looking for a good man, there are a few ways to find someone without leaving the comfort of your home. While many women will hit the clubs or bar scene to find a man, if you are someone wishes to stay away from that altogether, you can try finding someone via online dating services instead. There are many sites that cater specifically to black singles, though they all generally accept everyone regardless of their skin color.

How To Attract the Right Person On Social Media - Be Yourself!

By Nkem Akinsoto

Every day we hear of couples who get married after meeting each other online and on social media. Whether Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or simply private messaging forums and even blogs, all have registered several romances that end in marriage or some kind of long-term relationship.

A few days ago, news of the traditional wedding between two Nigerians who met on Twitter swept the blogosphere. Oyinkansola had replied a DM (direct message) sent by Olaoluwa and 3 years later, they are now husband and wife. Olaoluwa's DM to Oyinkansola was his first attempt at sending a DM and she was the first lady who replied him.

Catfishing Lands Woman In Hospital After Online Boyfriend Spends $7000 To Visit Her

You're a catfish when your online profile picture is different from who you really are or what you look like. Usually things don't work out well for catfishes, and it gets worse when you use those fake or enhanced profile pictures for online dating.

32-year old Xianojin Tuan learnt this the hard way after she landed in hospital with a broken arm and loads of aches, pains and bruises, as well as maybe a beating to her heart and self esteem. You see, she had just met face to face with online boo Huang Mao who was expecting to see someone completely different.

UK Students Seek 'Sugar Daddies' To Fund Their Degrees On Sugarbaby Website

It seems Aristo is not just a Nigerian thing, and when things get tough, people WILL use what they have to get what they what. With the cost of education rising in the UK recently, hundreds of students have reportedly signed up to a "dating" website that enables students to meet people willing to fund their degrees and lifestyles whilst at university.

Nearly 2,000 women students in the UK are said to be registered on SeekingArrangement.com, which promises to match "sugar babies" with "sugar daddies". Seeking Arrangement boasts 3.6 million active members, with 2.6 million "sugar babies" to 1 million "sugar daddies and mommas".

Police Seek 19-Year-Old Who Went Missing After Date With Man She Met Online

‪#‎Naugatuck‬ police has posted a press release on their Facebook page about this teenage woman who met someone online and hasn't been seen since New Year's Eve when she went off on a date with that person. Can you help them find her? Please share to help make sure she's found safe. See more information below...

Woman Raped Beaten and Left For Dead Names Facebook Lover As Her Attacker Before She Dies

Eliza Dragne, 30, was said to have been unlucky in love, so she kept it a secret when she met Nicu Alin Cristea, 29, on Facebook. Unfortunately, when they met up, he allegedly beat, raped, and stabbed her in the neck with a screwdriver and then left her to die in a field on the outskirts of town.

Despite her injuries, she managed to crawl to a road and was airlifted to Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital in Bucharest, where she slipped into a coma and died. However, before she passed away, she mustered enough strength to give a brief interview to police, who said she named Cristea as her alleged attacker.

The Price Of Modern Romance - Should You Pay For Online Dating?

By Helen Young

Online dating and cyber-connection is fast becoming the new norm when it comes to finding ‘the one’. Once considered vaguely shameful and slightly pathetic, nowadays the stigma associated with online dating is rapidly disappearing, and more and more of us are finding love through a screen.

Dating in the Modern Age And 4 Rules For Online Dating

By Jenna Brown

Relationships and coupling have always been surrounded by odd rituals and believe it or not, someday future generations might view our finding mates via online dating sites just as bizarre as we now view dowries or arranged marriage.

In today’s world, online dating has become the normal way to meet someone. Most of us have given up on the idea of a “meet cute” and instead prefer to surf for potential dates from the safety of our homes. Sure, some of us still go out to bars in the hopes of finding a hookup but mostly? It’s the dating site that helps us find our next relationships.

So! If you’ve been toying with the idea of joining one of the many sites out there, do not trust the judgmental tones that you hear your favorite sitcom characters use when they talk about using the Internet to find love. Those shows were filmed years ago and seriously? It’s not like those characters are doing so great, right?

Ever Used OKCupid? You Need To Know The Dating Website Has Been Experimenting on You!

For those looking for love on the internet through dating websites, I'm sorry to report that you're just a human guinea pig for the websites, as they experiment and test you for their own gains.

OKCupid, one of the world's most popular dating websites has just revealed that it has been experimenting on its users.

Their experiments have included putting the "wrong" people together to see if they would connect or hiding profile pictures or text and telling pairs of people who might have made great matches that they weren't actually good for each other.

This could explain why lots of people dating online complainoften about going on so many really awful dates even with the detailed profiles they put up.

Why I Date Mostly White Women - Black Male Blogger Explains His Interaccial Dating Choices

By Ernest Baker

Why do I date white women? Black women have told me it's because I'm a sellout. The white men who can get past the mental anguish of my black penis tarnishing "their" women think I'm making some latent admission that their race has the most attractive women.

White women range from those so intrigued by black men that it veers into fetish to those so reluctant to date black men that it feels more racist than preference-driven. These are generalizations, of course, but they are attitudes that I've personally encountered. Skepticism towards black men/white women relationships is a longstanding and well-documented part of our cultural fabric in America.

Love Scam - American Woman Sends Over Three Hundred Thousand Dollars To Nigerian Men

Henry Ogu, a 29-year-old man based in Kaduna has been arrested by the Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, for allegedly operating an internet fraud syndicate that specializes in defrauding unsuspecting wealthy foreign women who are in dire need of husbands.

Marry The Facebook Way, Divorce Soon - Do You Agree With Pastor Adeboye?

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, was speaking at the president’s daughter’s wedding over the weekend when he said that marriages contracted on social media may not last. He said in the sermon;

Nigerian @reitchy Proposes to Girlfriend @miss_zannie Live on Twitter!

Richards Ugochukwu (@reitchy) and Ihuoma (miss_zannie) met on Twitter 2 years ago when he tweeted that he needed a girlfriend, before the end of 2012. Regardless of his funny specs, she tweeted back at him that she would introduce a girlfriend to him. He started following her, they started chatting via DMs, then BBM and Facebook. Before long, they arranged to meet after which he asked her to be his girlfriend. A year and half later, Richards decided to propose to Ihuoma where they met, on Twitter.

Nigerian, Sede Alonge, Finds Her Perfect Soulmate on The Guardian's Comment is Free

Sede Alonge, a Nigerian hooked on reading online news articles, dropped a comment on such an article written by fellow Nigerian in the UK, Remi Adekoya. Her comment began a conversation between them on the comment is free discussion forums. The took it off the pages and several phone calls, emails, meetups, and a about a year later, Sede and Remi are engaged and planning to get married. Read her account below..

For Guys: This is How You Can Keep Up With Your Girl's Numerous Male Friends

A lady who makes loads of friends of both genders, especially the opposite sex, is usually a free spirit, a genuinely friendly person. Before a guy can develop the tactics to keep up with such a lady, if she is his girl, and her numerous male friends, he has to be certain if they are simply just her friends, or if they are his own rivals. And how do you ascertain that? Your girl's kind of person/personality, she falls in either of the following two categories:

[Advice Corner] My Suitor Doesn't Show Up on Google, Should I Let Him Go?

Maybe some of the readers here have done this in the past. I do it all the time. When I meet a man online or offline, or a friend tells me about a guy that they think we should meet, and we later hook up either in a first date or over the phone, I google him once I have his name and surname.

[Advice Corner] It's Hard Meeting Eligible Single Men. Has Anyone Tried Speed Dating or Online Dating in Nigeria?

Hi guys, I am so lonely. I live in a house full of people. But I need my own life partner and love. I came back from the UK early this year for a marriage, but it didn't work, so I refused the marriage.