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Once thriving, these sites are facing tougher times as social networks online and flirting over mobile devices catch users' fancy

Among the pumpkins of the dot-com boom, one of the few Cinderella stories had been online dating. While many Internet startups ended up with bottom lines scarier than a date from hell, searching for love online has became the largest category of paid Web content, after porn -- for which statistics are difficult to get. Until this year, revenues for Match.com and Yahoo! Personals (YHOO ), two of the biggest players, had been doubling annually. Profits had been piling up even though fewer than 20% of these sites' users had paid to seek their mates.

BusinessWeek

what the fuck is flirting over mobile devices?

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what the fuck is flirting over mobile devices?

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Yet another competitive threat -- from mobile devices -- is brewing. Text-messaging dating services are proliferating in places like San Francisco. Cell-phone owners using DodgeBall.com are notified when their friends come within their 10-block radius. A service from AT&T Wireless (AWE ) helps users find the closest sushi restaurant. Soon, someone might be able to come into a bar and pull up profiles of people sitting in the same bar and looking for a date, says Corante Research's Boyd. When these services become available, dating sites will be effectively competing against such wireless industry's heavyweights as Verizon Wireless, Cingular, and Sprint PCS (PCS ).

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Originally posted by smack
what the fuck is flirting over mobile devices?

Yeah exactly. sounds retarded