Many people say that large social networks like Facebook could takeover the online dating world overnight
I am a bit skeptical due to their current inability to have multiple, disconnected, and independently privacy-controlled profiles for a single user (e.g., let a user have multiple profiles that are not linked in a way). In 2001, I modified FriendFinder to support both friend social networking and online dating. It turned out not to be successful because members found that interacting with their current friends was a separate process than discovering new friends and dates. We later consolidated the profiles back into one.
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