Can Blogs Make a Love Connection?

Posted on August 15, 2005

Can blogs help people find a date? Adam Norris thinks they can. According to an Arizona Central article Adam cruises the blogs and profiles on MySpace.com to search for potential dates. He says he already has a list of 300 "friends".

But for many younger than 30, a blog is as much an ace in the dating game as a flashy car or a nice smile. Not everybody is looking to influence society.

Norris, a self-described geek with a slight frame and, until recently, no car, says he has had better luck with women in the past year. The reason? His discovery of MySpace, a blogging conduit that allows anyone to register, create a personal profile with pictures, and be linked to people anywhere in the world.

Norris says he has more than 300 "friends" on his MySpace account, and he has communicated with each of them.

"Over the past year, I've met so many people I'd never have met otherwise," he says. "My social skills are so much stronger now, and it began with the sort of training that blogging provided."

The blogs mentioned in the azcentral.com article are found on large social networking services like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster where meeting people for dates is already a common practice. Less is known about personal ads placed on stand-alone blogs. There does not yet appear to be a specific tag set-up to identify a blog post as a personal ad. However, blogger Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey says her personal ad is getting good traffic.

While there may be a use for blogs and dating it may not be wise to blog too much about past relationships -- you might regret it later.