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Meeting Your Match: Navigating the Minefield of Online Dating
Trying to find love online? This dating guide for the digital age mixes humor, frank advice, and practical information, plus a healthy touch of irreverence. Aimed at 20- to 30-something females, Meeting Your Match details the different "personalities" of the various sites and explains how to create a compelling profile, interpret others' profiles, write messages, spot time-wasters and weirdoes, and stay safe. Real-life case studies show what leads to success . . . and disaster.
208 pages, Paperback
First published December 18, 2014
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July 2, 2025
It honestly wasn't the most thrilling self-help book I've ever read. But it was colorful, humorous, and a little fun. Just a little bit though, I feel like the author WAY overestimated her ability to be funny because some of this stuff seems like the things that are funny in your head, but when you tell them to your friends, they just give you a blank stare and you end up trailing off feebly telling them "you had to be there" in order to justify the joke that fell flat.
A lot of the advice seems very "well DUH" at times, but frankly, I think everyone who is trying dating needs a "DUH" moment once in a while. Dating is messy and the book doesn't shy away from that. I was worried that being published 10 years ago would mean the advice is completely out of date. But surprisingly it was not. A lot still holds true, mainly because dating doesn't change all that much even if technology does, given that it's all about feelings and emotions rather than the pixels and data on your computer or phone.
The best advice Ms. Buchanan gives in here is that it's not romance, it's "ro-math". Basically she was saying the only way you're gonna find anyone is by dating a LOT. You can't go on one date a month and expect to find anyone. You gotta date like you're training for a marathon and go out on three to four dates a WEEK. Only that way will be find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with until you both drop dead. And isn't that all any of us really want?
A lot of the advice seems very "well DUH" at times, but frankly, I think everyone who is trying dating needs a "DUH" moment once in a while. Dating is messy and the book doesn't shy away from that. I was worried that being published 10 years ago would mean the advice is completely out of date. But surprisingly it was not. A lot still holds true, mainly because dating doesn't change all that much even if technology does, given that it's all about feelings and emotions rather than the pixels and data on your computer or phone.
The best advice Ms. Buchanan gives in here is that it's not romance, it's "ro-math". Basically she was saying the only way you're gonna find anyone is by dating a LOT. You can't go on one date a month and expect to find anyone. You gotta date like you're training for a marathon and go out on three to four dates a WEEK. Only that way will be find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with until you both drop dead. And isn't that all any of us really want?
May 10, 2024
Nothing special or groundbreaking, mostly generally known things, but at times it was humorous and it is an easy read.
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