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Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ... by krausejj on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:34PM (#3618914)
fascinating, thanks for this insight. this rings very true. do you have any good ideas for customer acquisition?

my only devil's advocate response would be that if a site delivers very well and people start hearing about people who successfully met on that site (and there isn't a stigma admitting it), then this could drive new users....

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Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ... by gbhn on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:38PM (#3618928)
crawl facebook?
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Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ... by krausejj on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:53PM (#3618980)
this is actually pretty tough. facebook has really tightened things up with regards to privacy and it's api - certainly a good thing for users but you'll notice you rarely see apps all over people's walls like a few years back - it is much harder to do and always requires onerous permissions.
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