Dating Service News

"By a 3-2 margin, women picked the Yankee's soft-eyed shortstop over third baseman Alex Rodriguez as the Bronx Bomber they would most like to have blast a home run over their fence, according to a new survey by a national dating service. 'He's a good-looking guy, and he has a cute personality,' said Nancy Kirsch, of It's Just Lunch, the date compay that found 59 percent of women call eligible bachelor Jeter their heartthrob, while 41 percent preferred the married a-Rod."

"While many experts don't expect online dating to take a nose dive, the recent plateau forces online dating companies to do some soul-searching to keep attracting young singles...'The big growth period is over,' said Nate Elliott, an online dating analyst with Jupiter Media in New York...The Atlanta branch of It's Just Lunch, a [dating service] business that relies on old-fashioned matching techniques and sets up singles for face-to-face dates, has cinched 3,000 members, a 25 percent jump over the past year."

"It's prom season. Nightmare time for any young man. I know — I was one once. Unlike my brother, who had a girlfriend from kindergarten on, I never really 'dated' in high school. Never had a steady. I was still trying to figure out who I was, but prom season has never cared much about introspection. Come spring, you needed a date, a white dinner jacket and a corsage. And so I fell in line with the rest of the lads. For me, as for many, I suspect, prom night always was first-date night...It's Just Lunch, a national dating service, has just come out with 'must-know' tips for first dates. They translate nicely to prom nights, too. Far too late for me now, of course, but I was curious to see what they were and how close I came to using them to assure my date that oh-so-perfect prom evening."

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