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I signed up to Bumble and within minutes my Beeline inbox started filling with profiles of men who wanted to meet me. This is great, I thought — exciting. I loved the little thrills I got from my phone pinging with messages: Karyn, you're buzzworthy!

Somebody wants to meet you! I don't remember FindSomeone being this interactive in the early 's.

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Clearly, things have changed. Dating sites, today, are not dissimilar to online games, proffers intimacy counsellor Angela Rennie. And if you've just come out of a break-up or you're down in confidence, the dating sites really feed into that. But of all the profiles in my Beeline, I was interested in very few. And then of the guys I swiped right on, not all of them swiped right back or stuck around, if we were matched, to have a conversation.

According to research by Cornell University , which analysed the online dating behaviour of , male and , female Tinder users, the odds of people matching online then dating in 'real life' are actually pretty slim. The reason why comes down to the fundamental differences between men and women. Men typically swipe right as often as possible to get a first match then decide once they've been matched whether they want to follow through and talk to that person. Women are very picky about who they swipe right on and become even more cautious when they realise that not everyone they swipe right on will swipe right back.

It's a vicious circle. Incidentally, women are three times more likely than men to send a message, but take much longer than men to start a conversation — which tells us that women are more engaged from the get-go because they've already invested time and energy into deciding whether they're interested in someone.

I ended up dating two guys I met through Bumble.

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One was super-lovely and so — you guessed it — at 47 I did exactly the same as my year-old self would have done and decided he was too nice, declining his invitation for a second date. The other — let's call him Peter - was enjoying the life of a player, dating multiple women at once. But he didn't tell me until Date Three when I was already invested. I was pretty sure we'd be riding off into the sunset together so I stuck around — not totally cool about the other women, but quietly confident that they'd fall away as he fell more in love with me each day.

I was tossed aside after Date Five. For a start, know and accept what the research tells us about online dating and the odds of matches actually working out in real life, she says. She also suggests sitting back for a while, if you do start spending time with a match, to see whether their behaviours match their words. Likes new adventures, travel and a cuppa in bed in t….

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Seduction Marketing deluxe example! Random experience: if enabled, it sends you a notification every time your profile gets viewed so Hot Andy thinks that I'm a stalker for checking out his profile about times in a few weeks. Attractive World - most recent to launch in NZ market - it doesn't even have an app yet.

Theory is that you upload your bio and pictures and get "voted" into the AW community if you are attractive enough. PROS: it breaks the mould and does something different, so it's already got you thinking that this must be a gold-mine filled with like, minded and attractive suitors. CONS: it doesn't yet do what it says on the packaging.

Still too new, or maybe just false advertising?