Summary: Just a quick post to get the show up in the feed. Hint: It's about Facebook. Show Notes for episode 15 below… DDP Ep. 015 Show Notes [and CONTEST announcement!! - see the end of this post for details] On DDP episode numero quince we talk about… Happy St Patty’s day! Whether you’re Irish....or just pretending to be. We salute you, clinking beer bottles included. Facebook. It’s a topic of concern for new relationships as well as well-established ones - do you want your new flame to see your photos of you all happy and lovey-dovey with you ex? An online presence is increasingly important, and Facebook is a great tool for being able to verify that the person you are chatting with online has friends and photos and all that on Facebook - maybe you even have mutual friends! Facebook can also complicate things in terms of how much you share with someone you’ve just started to date... and what happens if you break up. At what point is it appropriate to change your FB relationship status to reflect your non-single status, when you start a new relationship? This needs to be a conversation that you have with the other person, to avoid misunderstanding. We are curious about what other people think about when/if it’s appropriate to change your relationships status on your FB profile, so we put together a super quick little poll to get your opinions - you can click HERE or look at the next oldest blog post for that. ETA: Sorry! The poll is now closed! LINKS DU JOUR We talk about the most flirtatious cities in the US as detailed by The Atlantic magazine, with Miami at the top and more than half the top ten being coastal cities, which we thought was pretty interesting. NYMag reports on a new dating site, Findyourfacemate.com, which matches you with people who look like you - weird! Facial recognition software will match you with other users who have similar major facial features, and then you can filter your matches by values and personality, just like many other dating sites. We’re not convinced we’d like to date someone who looks like us! We also mention a fun informal collection of pick up lines on a blog called BGoodScience which is worth checking out - they got each gender to rank their favorite pick up lines and then vote on each other’s choices. Joel talks about some of the new premium features introduced on Plenty of Fish and OKCupid - some previously free options are gone and you have to pay for them, which is too bad. On Plenty of fish you are no longer able to view when someone recieves, reads or deletes your message. On OKcupid, you are no longer allowed to search for matches with the following search filters are now only available to those with A+ Memberships. These include Body type, Attractiveness, Dating Persona, and Questions Answered. MESSAGES Anna M. wrote in to give us a link to a collection of "10 True Online Dating Horror Stories", so you can check that out - it's pretty funny! ------------------- Angela S. wrote in from Ottawa about a recent date where she was totally unimpressed by the guy: he didn’t dress up, couldn’t string together a conversation, and ogled the girl at the next table. Needless to say, when he tried to kiss her goodnight, Angela was not interested! ------------------- Rose in Halifax sent us a message about her experience with her last boyfriend with regard to Facebook. When they broke up, he posted very publicly to his network about the situation and misrepresented lots of details so that he got sympathy from his friends, basically trying to make Rose feel terrible. Now that she’s with her new partner, she doesn’t share her relationship status on her wall and they keep their communications private. This is definitely a case of one jerk changing his ex’s online information-sharing habits because he reacted so poorly to the whole situation! ------------------- Thanks to everyone who wrote in, we love hearing from you! CONTEST!!
