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Originally Posted by KRL
The problem with videos is they are too time consuming and most single people are to shy to start putting vids of themselves to be circulated all over the Net which is what will happen. They'll worry about the pranksters that will edit their videos, change the audio, add subtitles, etc.
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I didn't have time to reply on this yesterday but I will do so today:
About videos being to time consuming: I disagree, go to youtube and hit the play button on any video, the thing starts playing without flaws within 1 second. My idea is to let people just upload their video and let them pick any screencap they want from their own video to use as a thumbnail for their profile, this way a person can decide if he/ she is interested enough to hit the play button for somebody's profile and spend time to watch the video. Of course you can just stop watching by clicking the stop button, there is nothing time consuming about this.
About people being to shy: Since your major target audience is for people with an age from 25 to 35-40 you are dealing with the "internet generation" what is the difference when a boss says to his secretary:"hey I saw your picture on that dating site yesterday" or "hey I saw your video on that dating site yesterday"? Why would they worry about pranksters to edit their videos? It's the same as they would have to worry about a prankster photoshopping the picture they put on the site. I know their are shy people out there who are to embarrassed to upload their picture to the internet, so those people wouldn't use this service but there are tons of singles who would.
I did a little search, some people are using youtube now to present themselves this way hoping to find somebody who's interested in them
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqCT-i6o9_U so looks like there is a demand for a decent platform.