article: The future of dating: VR dates, tech tattoos, DNA matching & robot love

https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/the-future-of-dating-667

DNA matching and virtual reality: The world of online dating in 2040 ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/dna-matching-and-virtual-reality-world.html

Love is not in the air
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/love-is-not-in-air.html

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, and not "meet other people with similar interests"
  The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
  High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.  

See How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity between quantized patterns using an adapted quantum mechanics math equation same as "Teller Ulam design".    

USA FTC: No more automatic rebilling in USA for Online Dating sites?

Soon! No more automatic rebilling in USA for Online Dating sites? Sooner than expected?
Stay tuned.

Thanks to AshleyMadison scandal (AshleyMadison threatened to expose customers who disputed bills and not its hacking incident) all the Online Dating Industry will suffer an earthquake.
For years, the "have an affair" website AshleyMadison threatened to send paperwork to users' homes if they disputed their bills [READ ALSO automatic rebilling] -- potentially revealing cheaters to their spouses.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/new-article-ashleymadison-threatened-to.html

Facebook’s Algorithm Changes Leave Dating Apps Frustrated By Reach Restrictions.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/facebooks-algorithm-changes-leave.html
Law article suggests USA FTC goes for Match Group ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/law-article-suggests-usa-ftc-goes-for.html 

Article: "The app boom is over. Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/article-app-boom-is-over-your-phone-is.html


Good Bots, Bad Bots: Changing the Way We Approach Cybersecurity?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/good-bots-bad-bots-changing-way-we.html

Security issues in mobile dating applications: attacks, malware and phishing. (via singleboersen-vergleich)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/security-issues-in-mobile-dating.html

Some data about Online Dating sites via SurveyMonkey Intelligence June 2016
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/some-data-about-online-dating-sites-via.html

2017 INTERNET TRENDS 2017 Next Big Thing: PERSONALIZATION!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/2017-internet-trends-2017-next-big.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html  

article. Huge Australian study says cell phones haven’t increased brain cancer rates, after all

http://qz.com/677772/huge-australian-study-says-cell-phones-havent-increased-brain-cancer-rates-after-all/

but wait until 2023, the association with Cell Phones high/intensive usage and gliomas, meningiomas, or acoustic neuromas risks will be clear. 
It will quite similar as the 20 years lag between smoking and lung cancer development.
Glioma is a broad category of brain and spinal cord tumors that come from glial cells, the main brain cells that can develop into tumors. The only risk factor for malignant gliomas is prior radiation to the brain. Family history accounts for less than 5% of causes for developing these tumors. Some genetic disorders increase the risk of development of these tumors in children but rarely in adults.

Mobile phones ARE linked to cancer, study claims: Long-term use 'is associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, headaches and skin irritation'

•     Radiation from wireless devices such as phones and tablets could be linked to a number of health risks, a new review of studies has claimed
•     Scientists claim radiation causes oxidative stress in the body - a damaging process thought to be closely linked to degenerative diseases
•     Study authors say mobile phone use should be minimised to prevent harm
•     Official guidelines state the devices could 'possibly' cause cancer

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3181406/Mobile-phones-linked-cancer-scientist-claims-Long-term-use-causes-disease-headaches-skin-irritation.html

As for wearable, remember Wi Fi is microwave radiation.
Please see the paper: LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO MICROWAVE RADIATION PROVOKES CANCER GROWTH: EVIDENCES FROM RADARS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/long-term-exposure-to-microwave.html

Main prediction 2014 for the Online Dating Industry

Legislation.

Online dating sites will be forced to show how many active members they have, like the Parship lawsuit.
During 2008, a lawsuit against Parship in Belgium about "pratiques commerciales trompeuses" forced Parship to disclose how many paid members it had in Belgium (Parship lied about their customers; 80.000 announced, 5.004 in reality, a 6.25% conversion rate, the same to say over 93% inactive profiles!!! )
When I was interviewed last January 2011 by "Caras y Caretas" (summer in Argentina) I thought there were going to be a big scandal, because former CEO of Match LATAM Countries recognized 75% inactive profiles at Match Argentina, but nothing happened until August 2011 when a U.S. Class Action Called Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charged then Match had morphed its marketing campaign.

 C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.  


Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo. With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.

article "Love In The Time Of GPS"

Just read the article "Love In The Time Of GPS" at OnlinePersonalsWatch
"It's more natural, you're out and about," said Brooks, who predicts that dating via mobile phone will change the game profoundly because apps can gather instantaneous feedback about how a date went, resulting in better matches. "People don't really know what they want, so the best way to match people is to look at their behaviors," Brooks said. "Your phone is going to get to know you, it is going to get to know your buying behavior."

The best way to match people is by strict personality similarity.

Please remember the mobile concept is evolving: Almost 70% of all mobile usage takes place over a Wi-Fi Network! (mobile concept evolving, meaning tablets with Wi-Fi Network access rather than cell phones) SMS Still The Dominant Messaging Platform – 92% of Phone Users Use SMS (Data from comScore UK)
and
Behavioural Matching is vaporware (for serious daters. PlentyOfFish is the biggest Behavioural Matching site on Earth and it is a fiasco)



The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

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By 2023 (because 2013 is too early), the association with Cell Phones high/intensive usage and gliomas, meningiomas, or acoustic neuromas risks will be clear. It will quite similar as the 20 years lag between smoking and lung cancer development.
Glioma is a broad category of brain and spinal cord tumors that come from glial cells, the main brain cells that can develop into tumors. The only risk factor for malignant gliomas is prior radiation to the brain. Family history accounts for less than 5% of causes for developing these tumors. Some genetic disorders increase the risk of development of these tumors in children but rarely in adults.

I bought a Siemens A31 cell phone last March 2006 and I still use it with its original battery since 2006!. I rarely talk no more than 10 minutes per month and send no more than 50 SMS's per month. I plan to still use it for the next years.

The Online Dating Industry / Plans & Predictions 2013

Plans: The 7 pillars strategy.

1- Lawyers: Since some years ago I had been assisting lawyers who sue online dating sites for fake/inactive profiles, sending them screenshots and other valuable information. I will continue and incentivize them during 2013.

2- Consumers' Associations: Since some years ago I had been denouncing several online dating sites for fraud at several Consumers' Associations worldwide. I will continue.

3- Journalists: I continually contact the writers / journalists who write articles in several newspapers/magazines sending them my point of view, saying why the entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%).

4- Researchers: Since 2005 I had been heavily contacting Academics. All the new and fresh research is over my desk. Nearly all the Researchers know who I am.

5- Executives from old competitors and newbies: I had contacted all of them and they are very comfortable attracting, converting and retaining subscribers with automatic renewal of their subscriptions and other credit-card billing trickery, than offering a good compatibility matching method. It seems they really do not want to innovate.

6- Some dissatisfied daters from eHarmony, True, Meetic, Parship, Chemistry, PerfectMatch, PlentyOfFish, Be2, and other sites had been contacting me with complaints. I encourage them to denounce those dating sites in  Consumers' Associations.

7- Investors: I had been contacting them since 2001. They had been fascinated by social networking utilities and mobile applications but very few had invested in online dating sites. 


8- White-Hat Hackers, the good ones: I am not involved with them but I suspect they read my blog.


Predictions:


IAC's Personals: OkCupid, Chemistry and MeeticAffinity, in decadence since years.
Most probably the IAC will launch a new compatibility (personality profiling) site, using copycats of the 16PF5 test in different languages.
I had challenged them to offer compatibility distribution curves.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon.

PlentyOfFish (POF) will be sold with its bunch of employees, before its business model collapse due to migration to mobile (without paying subscriptions and without seeing ads).
PlentyOfFish, the wolf in sheep's clothing, had been only making noise in the Online Dating Industry, but it can not revolutionize nothing. It failed to be the next free eHarmony with its PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then renamed to the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor, then renamed again PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then failed with eVow, its entirely paid proposal, then will fail with its new paid UltraMatch feature, a Behavioural Recommendation Engine which never performed as expected, and nearly nobody pays for that feature.



True and PerfectMatch will be game over, they both failed to be reconverted (and this time forever)



Badoo will be revealed as a big fraud, full of inactive and fake profiles.
Social Dating  is a complete waste of time because "social networks" are for meeting the people you know in advance, not for meeting new people for dating or make new friends. There are 2 papers "The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph" and "Four Degrees of Separation" cited in the article "Facebook users average 4.74 degrees of separation"


I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)


The summer will begin next 21st December here in South America, with January the hottest month. The wind blowing from the North is very, very hot. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, see why your brain distorts.

What comes after Social Networking?
My bet: The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
 The market remain enormous!!

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

Online Dating Industry 2012, full predictions.

eHarmony and IAC's Personals will launch new compatibility (personality profiling) sites, both using copycats of the 16PF5 test. I had put them under high pressure revealing in advance their plans to each other. I had challenged them to offer compatibility distribution curves.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon, comparing both proposals in my blog. My bet is both Match and eHarmony are going to fail with those new sites. They need the knowledge I have about how to compare quantized patterns with high precision.
Remember: eHarmony had stayed 11 years in the Online Dating Industry without innovating, saying "scientifically proven" and eHarmony does not have any proof; with a low success rate and high level of false positives, scamming members with automatic rebilling and other credit cards trickery. (Jazzed failed / eHarmony Japan called iHamoni never launched / eHarmony USA, CA, UK, AU losing traffic) and Match failed with Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site, a complete fiasco and MeeticAffinity in Europe, another HOAX.

PlentyOfFish, the wolf in sheep's clothing, had been only making noise in the Online Dating Industry, but it can not revolutionize nothing. It failed to be the next free eHarmony with its PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then renamed to the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor, then renamed again PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then failed with eVow, its entirely paid proposal, then will fail with its new paid UltraMatch feature, a Behavioural Recommendation Engine. (little birdie told me it does not perform as expected, and nearly nobody pays for that feature)

 
Expect a NEW major Lawsuit in USA against paid dating sites for fraud (fake profiles, inactive profiles and automatic rebilling trickery), like the one about Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit.

Expect a major publicized hacking incident again at PlentyOfFish. Meetic was also hacked last January 2011 was not publicized.  In July 4th 2011 Match was hacked but it was not publicized.

True and PerfectMatch will be game over, they both failed to be reconverted.

Zoosk, will be the next Stupid Investors Series, they will lose over USD 40 million.

Badoo will be revealed as a big fraud, full of inactive and fake profiles.
Social Dating  is a complete waste of time because "social networks" are for meeting the people you know in advance, not for meeting new people for dating or make new friends. There are 2 papers "The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph" and "Four Degrees of Separation" cited in the article "Facebook users average 4.74 degrees of separation"


I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)

The summer will begin soon here in South America, with January the hottest month. The wind blowing from the North is very, very hot. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, see why your brain distorts.

Online Dating Industry 2011, predictions

Main prediction for the Online Dating Industry 2011: The Online Dating Fatigue Phenomenon will get even worse during 2011.


PlentyOfFish had reached operating ceiling, now decaying. eVow can not take off

eHarmony USA losing traffic. You will see daters leaving in droves from old paid sites like Match, Chemistry, True, eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Be2, Parship, Meetic, etc.

MySpace is going to be the biggest dating application for fun, in ... Facebook!!!
MySpace NOW is a deliberately social dating site; for fun, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification but nor for serious dating with commitment.
It is clearly a threat to all dating applications at Facebook and PlentyOfFish / OKCupid.



Mr. Greg Blatt named CEO of IAC? He is only a lawyer. He is not going to innovate in nothing.
My bet: He will continue to acquire rotten tech companies in order to show some kind of success, show achievements, show milestones during his tenure.

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries has:
* No Legislation.
* No Quality Norms.
* Low reliable background checks.

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%),

There is a range convergence phenomenon between the 3 mains tools online dating sites offer now: Searching by your own, Recommendation Engines and Compatibility Matching Methods based on proprietary models or the Big5. Any member receives on average 3 to 4 prospective mates as selected / recommended / compatible for dating purposes per 1,000 members screened in the database.
They all 3 are performing the same for serious daters, with a high percentage of false positives, like gun machines firing flowers.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.