Hey! Yeah, you. Mr. and Mrs. I’m Too Busy And Popular To Waste My Time Online Dating Like Those Losers From The WTF?! Online Dating Series. Think you’re too cool?
Think again.
Answer these questions for me, please:
*Do you have a Facebook account?
*Have you ever ‘liked’ or commented on someone’s Facebook status?
*Do you tend to scroll through the Facebook profile photos of that guy or girl you just met?
*Have you ever sent a Facebook friend request to a person who you found attractive?
Surprise! You’re online dating. Sorry, it’s the truth. Deal with it.
In today’s Huffington Post piece, I prove that anyone with a Facebook account is engaging in some serious post-dating Techno-Romance – albeit it, in a more ambiguous and confusing way than those of us who have jumped headfirst into the traditional online dating world. I also explain how, based on its many functionalities and features, Facebook is actually the best and most comprehensive dating site in existence. Who knew?
Well, really, you should know. Pay attention as I kick you off your online dating high horse HERE.
YOU’RE ONLINE DATING AND YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IT!
WTF?! Some idiot (it might have been me) clued my mother in to the marvelous WTF?! JDate Guest Blog from yesterday. I thought she would enjoy it! I thought she would appreciate that I appreciate that she’s not one of those moms who meddles in private affairs like my f*cked up love life.
But boy oh boy, my mom more than enjoyed it. She was INSPIRED by it.
“I like this idea,” she said to me. “Sometimes your mother can know you better than you know yourself.”
And so my mother – far from the most tech-savvy lady on the planet – has taken it upon herself to scour OKCupid looking for my future husband. I gave her my log in name and password, and she commandeered my 16-year-old brother’s brand new MacBookPro to start the e-search for (my) love.
How far would you go? For Federer? For really good sushi? For love?
Happening this weekend at a movie theater near you – Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (a real life it-seems-to-be-complicated couple) take on the anxieties of miles-apart love in GOING THE DISTANCE. With Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, and Christina Applegate along for sh*ts and giggles. Relationships are hard and complicated – why not get down and dirty and have some laughs at your own expense?
You know when you hear one of those real-life stories that just seems way too crazy, outlandish, amazing, beautiful and shocking to be true?
In today’s guest blog, we’ve got one of those stories.
Next up in our WTF?! online dating series, we tackle JDate (first from the female perspective – guys are coming up soon!). But ohhhhhhhh, this is not just any Jdate tale. This is f’ing nuts. And f’ing fantastic.
So what happens when a radical feminist riot grrl musician lets her Jewish mother create her JDate profile? First there’s the requisite embarrassment, and then there’s some bad dates, and then…no. We don’t want to ruin it for you. It’s too good.
Just check it out HERE. And please, we desperately beg of you – don’t tell our mothers about this. You’ll get it when you read it.
THE ULTIMATE J-MOM SUCCESS STORY
We modern woman are confusing, aren’t we? One moment, we’re begging you to pay more attention to us and beating ourselves up for even talking to another guy and desperately trying to get over you. And the next moment, we’re claiming that you’re too nice and breaking up with you!
What gives?
In my latest Ask Jess column, I try to help out a guy who might just be too nice for his own good. Three girlfriends, three breakups, three complaints that he didn’t “criticize them enough.” What are these ladies really getting at? How can he fare better in his next relationship? And what does today’s woman really, truly want from a man?
I break it down HERE.
ASK JESS #8! SHOULD I BE MORE CRITICAL OF GIRLS?
Remember TimWow?
Who are we kidding – OF COURSE you remember TimWow!
Back at the beginning of August, we told you about Tim Goggin, the 32-year-old single San Diegoan who created the first-ever personalized dating infomercial, TimWow. He’s since been featured on Mashable and on your local television station, broadening his search for love and navigating his way through the waters of the post-dating world in one of the most unique and pro-active ways possible.
But how did he come up with the idea of the infomercial? Why did he give up on more “traditional” methods of online dating? What was he looking for, but not finding, amongst the ladies who filled his love life?
We’re honored to have TimWow himself answer those questions HERE.
This is Techno-Romance at its most innovative. And it may not be the most conventional example of online dating, but by golly, TimWow’s story certainly belongs in our WTF?! online dating series. Talk about finding love via your WiFi connection!
Yet it doesn’t stop there. As you will see, TimWow’s dating history, past and present, has been a journey of self-discovery and revelation. His adventures haven’t strayed so far from our own experiences with the gaggle, with all of us aiming to figure out who we are and what we want as we move closer to finding our perfect matches. As TimWOW explains, “…with each date – whether they were awful, good or great – I shaped what I wanted for myself.”
And what does he want for himself? Well, he certainly doesn’t want to settle. Amen, TimWow! AMEN!
So let’s follow TimWow’s path to love – and to a truer understanding of his own self and desires – in today’s guest blog…
WHY I CREATED TIMWOW, THE DATING INFOMERCIAL
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