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Message on an M + M

© Laura Wurst

"Online Dating Newsletter" features online dating tips, relationship advice and online dating news. The newsletter is free, e-mailed to you every Wednesday. "Online Dating Newsletter" is sponsored by Online Dating Magazine, which focuses on the online dating services industry. "Online Dating Newsletter" contains how-to articles such as, "How to Stay Clear of Married Men," which points out that 1/3 of people using dating services are married, and "Opposites Attract: How to Make It Work," which describes how to make a relationship of opposites work. These articles are clearly designed to confirm safety and security in online dating services.

This newsletter offers "creative" date ideas. Some of the ideas include "Glow Sticks at the Beach" (throwing glow sticks at each other), "Home Movie Theater" (creating ticket stubs and serving concession type foods to your partner in a red vest), and "Go on a Play Date" (going to a video arcade). Has dating truly reached such a low point? Wouldn't the word "pathetic" more accurately describe those activities? If that much work is required to attract your partner, it may not be worth it. They will only be disappointed when you stop trying so hard.

Another feature of the newsletter lists romantic ideas - a nice thought, but who wants to be proposed to by a customized M&M? Yes, believe it or not, one of the romantic ideas is to write, "Marry Me" on a customized M&M. I recommend you skip the romantic idea department, and move on. Speaking of romance, there is an ad banner on the website to "meet Russian mail order brides for romantic correspondence and marriage." Yes, Virginia, almost anything can be mail ordered.

Overall, "Online Dating Newsletter" acts as an advertisement for the online dating services industry, encouraging its readers to join online dating by supplying them with statistics and advice, and by filling their heads with romance, a not-so-modern concept. My advice is to not waste your time. It is everything you would expect of a free newsletter.

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