NBC5 -- Apr 13 -- "Well, there are a lot of things that online dating does well," said Mark Thompson of WeAttract.com. "Arranging marriages is not one of them. You see lots of happy couples. But what they're not going to tell you is that out of about 2,000 people they match up, only one couple is actually going to get married." Advertisements, some say, are in need of regulation. "These companies should be following the FTC guidelines for advertising," said Glenn Hutchinson, also of WeAttract.com. "If they're really prominently showing couples that have gotten married through their site, then they need to be very candid about how frequently that occurs and how many users actually find those happy marriages." Many Web sites do not share success rates. FULL ARTICLE @ NBC5
Mark Brooks: Online dating holds great promise. The sites that deliver will prosper. The sites that do not will pull the rest of us down. Most sites do deliver. The industry just needs to do a better job of reporting success stories.
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