Online and offline dating
This post compares two hypothetical dating organizations. We will call the first one OnlineDating Inc. and the second one OfflineDating Inc..
The first organization offers services only over the Internet: a database of daters’ profiles (including text, photo, and video), with search and matchmaking capabilities, offering different possibilities of communication (e-mail, chat, telephone, and webcam). OnlineDating Inc. is not interested whatsoever in what their clients will do once they decide to meet face-to-face. The second company operates only in real life, organizing dating events, and giving in-person assistance and counseling. They also have a database of daters, which is not directly accessible by their clients. Daters cannot find each other, other then by participating in one of the life dating activities offered by OfflineDating Inc. Consequently, daters cannot engage in any type of communication (telephone, Internet, etc) prior to their face-to-face meeting.
These two cases are idealizations of two well known dating paradigms. We will analyze them in their pure state, in order to highlight their advantages and disadvantages, from a business point of view, as well as from the point of view of the consumer. These idealizations are not so strange to us, as even today we can find a lot of examples of OnlineDating Inc. As for the OfflineDating Inc. model, examples are found only in the past. Virtually all traditional dating organizations have adopted the new technology, and offer online services very similar to OnlineDating Inc.
My primary interest is to see if this dichotomy still holds today, and to predict future trends for the dating industry. Already the fact that OfflineDating Inc. model is virtually extinct – in some cases traditional dating organization have integrated all distinctive aspects of OnlineDating Inc.’s model – suggests that the construct of offline dating is not materially supported anymore. But the online/offline dichotomy might still hold its heuristic value, as we can still find examples of OnlineDating Inc. What do the future hold for OnlineDating Inc.?
Detailed description of OfflineDating Inc.
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Detailed description of OnlineDating Inc.
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Real needs of daters
Read section What are the needs of daters HERE.
Points of concordance and discordance
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The case of OfflineDating Inc.
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The case of OnlineDating Inc.
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2 comments:
It would be great if date.com and plentyoffish.com were to honest about the people they boot out of there sites. Every time i reported a profiles for any kid of harrasment or threat Markus and date bootes me out. Plentyoffish.com very responds back to you at all even with reporting anyone. Plentyoffish is suppose to be a one man opporaition if this is the case who is running the formors that are being posted and who is running the site as to tech diffacualties? plentyoffish.com is not a far site. They he boots peole out for reporting threats and harrassing vogler langage. But if you were to go into the site look at the pics of half un dressed wemon in the site he Markus alouds this. were are the rules and law for these sites there unfairand unjustifying to these who play or dont pay its all in who your are with Markus finders
Online dating is best for those people who are looking for dating who can know each other very well before going out. Nice one keep posting..............
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