Please, No More Online-Dating Ads In Social Networks!

September 21, 2007 · View Comments ·

Remember those explicit ads for the True online dating service? As a self-identified male in my young thirties, they used to follow me around constantly inside of MySpace. Below is one such example.

(an advertisement served to me in MySpace in 2006)

I’m not sure what’s happened to True, but now its category sibling Singlesnet.com is coming after me inside Facebook!

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(an advertisement served to me in Facebook in 2007)

For the record, I’m not “having trouble meeting attractive female Friends.” I already know “how to meet chicks.” In fact, I’ve been happily married for seven years, and have a kid.

To avoid banner blindness, I need ads that provide service or benefit to me — like how to balance work and home, or how to ease my toddler’s intolerable teething pain at 3am in the morning, or tips to more efficiently manage bookkeeping and tax filings for my nanny.

I’m all for achieving viable advertising models to support social networks, but please no more online-dating ads.

{ 5 comments }

rossenancy September 24, 2007 at 2:59 am

Great post. Keep up the good work! I will date one from BillionaireCupid dot com tonight. I hope it works.

Online Dating March 26, 2009 at 10:59 pm

They really do have a bunch of dating banners, butt they go by what converts well and i can imagine online dating and adult personals convert the best.

WebMax May 29, 2009 at 9:01 am

LOL I agree with you. Some people really need to understand their target market!

hashmatullah April 10, 2010 at 11:51 pm

I wanto fack you

Yomama August 8, 2010 at 9:21 pm

I personally make 7 figures from running online dating ads. So…….no I wont stop.

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