DISQUS

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

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bii · 2 years ago

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zeroinflunencer · 2 years ago

No Twitter? (Twitter + 'dating' = infinite speed dating)

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

I heard crack addicts don't have time for dating.

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

Twitter added.

RBA · 2 years ago

You mean, social networks aren't for people in a stable relationship or married couples? :-)

Anyway, I'd vote for AdultFriendFinder.com
Beat that :-)

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

Too true. I actually considered listing it, but it would make it an unfair contest. Also, dating sites would probably win if we listed those. Adult Friend Finder is an oddity: very successful ($200M+ annual revenue), but virtually unheard of. There's still a stigma around adult sites and always will be.

sean percival · 2 years ago

Yes, and ironically when he started his sites he didn't have the "adult" theme in mind. His members just took the site in that direction.

John Madison · 1 year ago

Adult friend finder has way too many,
"You think I am a bitch just because I know what I want." Type people.

RBA · 2 years ago

Well, your question was obviously in the line of "which of this non-specifically-made-for-dating social networks will get you laid the most", so I went a bit out of line with my answer, just because it was an easy one.

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

OK, we found the guy who voted for LinkedIn.

RBA · 2 years ago

Excuse me? :-) I haven't voted yet but I'm going to go with Facebook. College days, those are the days.

Tom · 2 years ago

Most likely to get you chlamydia: MySpace

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

STDs will be in the next survey.

violet · 2 years ago

to consider: tribe.net (at least in 2005 people got laid there), consumating.com, iminlikewithyou, flickr

john · 2 years ago

None of the social networks have helped me get laid.

If anything it's AIM. Since you take conversations from both social networks over to your Messengers and talk about meeting and hooking up.

Muneeb · 2 years ago

Orkut

Nathan · 2 years ago

My vote is for the social network oriented around exactly that:

GetThemLaid.com

Aziz · 2 years ago

for Iranians it's definitely "Orkut"

Magnus · 2 years ago

No doubt, aSmallWorld makes it easy. LinkedIn a good runner up. Facebook would be good but in college you get laid anyway, so the network doesn t do much for you

Kaerast · 2 years ago

The only networks where I've met somebody before knowing them in real life are del.icio.us and flickr, del.icio.us was the better of the two because sharing all your bookmarks is more intimate than sharing the odd photo.

Facebook I only use to keep in touch with existing friends, which I guess helps. Also, MSN - instant messenger and msn spaces together provide a good way of keeping in touch with existing friends, which I guess could be used to get laid.

matt · 2 years ago

why can't i vote for craigslist? i have proof that it works

farmhand · 2 years ago

see this is the kind of blog questions i wanna see! u need to put faceparty on there

Timothy Bryce · 2 years ago

www.latenightshots.com

B. · 2 years ago

Are you a member of www.latenightshots.com?

I'd like an invitation if you are. Will you send me one?

B.

NotTechcrunch · 2 years ago

Pete,

Please don't turn this blog into the ususal Techcrunch BS.

DVH · 2 years ago

I'm currently researching the laying on Last.fm

I'll report back in a couple of weeks.

FauxSheezie · 2 years ago

Duuuude... it was all about HotOrNot back in the day.

HotOrNot paved the way... If it weren't for HotOrNot, the only chicks on MySpace would be nerdy anime girls.

BillyWarhol · 2 years ago

I can only Vouch fer Flickr*

;PPP

Pranav · 2 years ago

You missed out orkut. It's HUGE outside north America and very popular among youngsters in Brazil and India.

P-Air · 2 years ago

Tribe. Both Tribe & Craigslist drew on the same types of people and both were getting lots of action last time I checked in.

tom sheramn · 2 years ago

33 comments at time of posting... way more than anything else on the front page! lol

Anyway, Craigslist HAS to be on here. Pretty informal network, sure, but it qualifies -- and Lord knows it's easy to get action from there.

tom sherman · 2 years ago

33 comments at time of posting... way more than anything else on the front page! lol

Anyway, Craigslist HAS to be on here. Pretty informal network, sure, but it qualifies -- and Lord knows it's easy to get action from there.

Anonymous Coward · 2 years ago

Was: Facebook. But only during my freshman year of college ... somehow its magic wore off after late 2004.

In fact, I'd say there is an inverse correlation between account age (or length of SNS use) and desire to meet new people.

It turns out there are some people (especially men, and yes, I am male) that really suck and brought bad vibes and perceptions to MySpace by the end of 2005. I noticed similar but delayed trends on Facebook and OKCupid (which is not on your list, but I'd say it has the highest lay potential at present.)

Apologies for posting anonymously to the public, but I guess you can say I'm somewhat of a 21-year-old authority on the SNS space wrt dating, privacy, and security. I'm coding a startup SNS that should address, if not solve, the aforementioned *ahem* clientèle issues.

Cheers.

David Stone · 2 years ago

The problem with two "twits" going on a date is that their phone keeps beeping, telling them what fun all their other friends are having - it becomes a very unsocial date.

But, I still love twitter :)

chill · 2 years ago

Lots of sex at Newsvine

(ok very little sex)

Faruk Ates · 2 years ago

I'm In Like With You ( http://iminlikewithyou.com/ )

For sure. :-)

Cruisemaster · 2 years ago

If you're a gay male, then it's mCruising!

Find someone on your cell phone nearby looking for just that...

Mike · 2 years ago

No one mentioned Fling.com ?... I'm not speaking from experience but a client of our company mentioned it last week. If you are 18 or older, take a look, this one hands down will get you laid!

Also not mentioned was the site I manage where tens of thousands of people hook up each year. Although that's not the intention of PlayCoed.com (the site allows organizers and participants to come together in a social network). Sports players and teams meet each other through recreational sports and the after game parties and there are numerous stories of hook ups, even marriages through meeting originally on the web.

Poppy · 2 years ago

livejournal (diaryland back in the day)

Chris · 2 years ago

LiveJournal has got me more than all the others combined. ;D

lame · 2 years ago

iawtc

Tyler Martin · 2 years ago

LiveJournal baby. Oh yeah. Emo chicks rule.

Domitalk · 2 years ago

getting lucky on myspace is how you get on the show NBC Dateline: How to catch a predator. You actually know your facebook friends

TXBug · 2 years ago

Here's a concept. Ditch the web sites, text - messaging, and other crap. Get out of the house and into the real world where real people live and breath. Here's another concept...talk to people face-to-face. See their eyes, hear their voice, experience each other's company. Here's a tip, if you go out into the wide world we live in, you don't have to post stupid, desperate, half-naked photos of yourself on the Internet, hoping that you will find that special someone who doesn't have five ex-spouses, or isn't an ax-murderer...

cande · 2 years ago

man, so true! social networks are meant mainly for dating...

Rich · 1 year ago

Hey, TXBug,
AMEN to that!

tommayy · 1 year ago

Honestly, it has to be myspace, I think the more sophisticated group went over to facebook and all the trash stayed at myspace, lol just my opinion.

http://www.officialdatingresource.com/best-dati...

jack · 11 months ago

meetup.com... got laid twice

casualencounters · 6 months ago

Hilarious. Nearly all the profiles on Myspace are dead, bands, or fake. Good luck getting laid on that abortion.