Online Dating

Digital Get Down: Stay safe

May 15, 2013

In light of recent personal events, I’ve decided you need to know how to recognize and react to a potentially unsafe or creepy situation. I say this because on Saturday, I met up with a guy at a bar...

1,001 Nights with Laken: Scary Hotel ‘Date’

May 15, 2013

Once upon a time, I received an OkCupid message from a guy who lived very far away in Georgia. The message was nice, funny and generally pleasing. Despite the obvious fact that I would probably never...

1,001 Nights with Laken: Creepy Zoosk Date

May 8, 2013

Back in the days before I discovered OkCupid, I experimented a little with a website called Zoosk. Because I was not yet trained in the art of online dating, I made a few mistakes. In general, I just wasn’t...

Digital Get Down: Tinder sucks

May 8, 2013

Up to this point, I’ve only really discussed my take on OkCupid dating. This week, I’ll switch gears and talk about Tinder, an app for hookups, and one of the reasons it sucks. Tinder pissed me...

1,001 Nights with Laken: J.J. Java snoozefest

May 1, 2013

Not every date is a home run. Actually, most of the ones I’ve been on have been fairly mediocre. A few months ago, I was bored and in a dating lull, so I messaged a guy I had talked to before but stopped...

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