The January 2010 issue of Self Magazine mentions Zoosk in an article about the increased demand for online dating.

Zoosk is determined to put the “recess” in “recession”. So go out and play!

By Juliet O

There is arguably no worse feeling, in the entire universe, than a broken heart. At least — that’s what you trick yourself into believing when you are suffering at the end of an intense relationship. Whirlwind romances — with their highs, lows, and everything in between — leave you exhausted at the end of the journey. Exhausted, and bewildered. And a host of other adjectives: devastated, dysfunctional, jaded, temporarily insane.

It’s okay. We’ve all been there. In fact, I challenge anyone to find me an adult person (who isn’t a sociopath) who hasn’t at one point experienced the pains of being brokenhearted. It happens to each and every one of us, and when it happens, we are never really prepared for what is to follow. A lot goes on in the human heart. It’s a mysterious organ.

The next question then, when realizing that lovesickness happens to us all, is how something that feels so catastrophic be at the same time so terribly mundane. Because it is mundane, and it’s also horribly monotonous. You feel the exact same way (sad, bereft, lost, alone) for a really, really long time with hardly any positive emotional interruptions to lighten that dull blanket of gloom. How unfair, to feel exactly the same, for so long — and to feel as if you hardly have any control of it at all.

But the thing is, you do have control. At least, you have some control. And with effort, you can at least pull yourself out of your depressing doldrums into a more stable place, if you try. It isn’t easy to force yourself to ’snap out of it,’ but in the end, you’ll realize it’s for the best and thank us. If you are suffering from a broken heart and are trying to mend it with Zoosk, here are some tips that might help you.

1. There are things out there that are worse than a broken heart. Realize this.

Broken heart does not equal ‘you die’. Because you won’t die. And death is worse. You should always repeat this to yourself when you feel like you’re living through the worst thing in the human experience. You aren’t. You are alive, you appear to have access to the internet, you are probably not terminally ill, you probably don’t live in abject poverty in a hut in Darfur — you have it better than most. Even if being brokenhearted makes you wish you were dead, take heart that you aren’t. And you won’t be. At least, not from this.

2. Zoosk cannot cure your broken heart, but we do give you an option of moving on.

People heal from emotional traumas at different rates, and we are not here to tell you that you need to be perfectly healed in order to start dating again. In fact, waiting by yourself, completely isolated from the dating world, for the months (and even years) that it can take to get over a lost love is counter-productive, we believe, in moving forward. Have you ever seen the documentary Grey Gardens? It can drive you crazy to remove yourself from the world and wait in self-imposed exile for the heart to heal.

There are certain phases in broken-heartedness. At first, you feel stricken with panic and grief, and you maintain delusions that one day, you and your lost love will be reunited. Many people try to ‘win back’ their exes, and when things don’t go as planned, they feel even more despondent. When you are in the initial phase of grieving, it is not advisable for you to begin dating. Every person you date, no matter how amazing they are, will seem to you as pale comparisons next to the golden light of your beloved. Your brain will trick you into viewing everyone as a foil for your ex, and dating might even have the effect of making you run to your ex and try even harder to win them back.

We think dating is actually good when you feel sad over someone else, but only when you get to the second stage of grieving: you accept that you and your ex are over, you know it will never work out in the near or far future, and you are prepared to make the adjustments in your life that will cause you to move on. You don’t have to be completely ‘over’ your ex, but you should be accepting of the fact that your past relationships is in the past and will continue to stay in the past.

3. Enjoy simple pleasures.

The feeling of love is intoxicating, addicting. After it vanishes, it is tempting to seek its exact replacement. But love doesn’t sit on every corner waiting for you. People don’t operate like that. When one love vanishes, it can be a while before a new one crops up and takes its place. It takes a lot of dating a lot of different people to find the one. In the meantime, while you are dating around, you should take time and enjoy the simple things. Ice cream? Exercise? Being out in nature? Shopping (within reason)? You should do the things you normally enjoy, and reflect on all the small moments of happiness that you experience in your day-to-day life.

4. Make lists. Be busy.

Being too busy to reflect on your broken heart is a blessing in disguise. For people with intense, stressful jobs, that means you should focus on your work and try to be too busy to mope. For those with plenty of free time, that means making lists and filling your day with places to go and people to see. Lying in bed all day and eating ice cream out of the carton is all good and well up to a point (I say a week is fair, give or take) but there does come a time where you need some saving from yourself. Save yourself from yourself, and get out of the house.

Make dates! Line up dates during the week, and try to get to know new people. It helps!

5. Challenge yourself, once enough time elapses, to stop talking about your ex.

So he/she is all you can talk about for the first three weeks. You bring him/her up at every opportunity, much to the chagrin of your friends. What a room emptier. What a thing a wet mop does. Don’t be the person everyone is trying to avoid because all you can talk about is your long lost love! It’s tedious. Yes your friends and loved ones will be there for you. Yes, that is what they are for. But only up to a point. Do not take advantage of your friends by using them as therapists. If you find you really need to talk about your ex that much, perhaps it’s time to spring for a therapist and leave your friends out of the mix.

6. Exercise.

Exercise. Seriously. Exercise regulates your brain and releases awesome endorphins and other healthy hormones that will make you feel better. Also, exercise is a great way to feel accomplished, after you’ve put in a great work-out. It makes your brain release oxytocin, which is a peptide that regulates your mood. Even its just going for a brisk walk, exercise is a great way of moving forward.

7. Eat yummy things.

Eating certain foods can help regulate your mood. Certain fatty acids can help boost your mental power (find things packed with omega-3 vitamins and electrolytes) and stabilize your mood. Selenium helps regulate anxiety, and you can find that in Brazil nuts, sunflower seeds, and swordfish. Protein can elevate mood, and can be found in healthy foods like lean meat and tofu. Calcium is a great way for women to regulate mood swings, and you can find it in yogurt, soy milk, and broccoli. If you’re feeling heart-broken in the winter, perhaps you aren’t getting enough vitamin-D from the sun (which leads to seasonal depression). Try drinking a big cup of soy milk with breakfast to get the day started right!

8. Make goals and meet them.

Smal, reachable goals that can be easily met are a great way to boost your self-esteem and confidence. Make plans for yourself and follow through! If you’ve always wanted to go to Paris, start saving up for it, and go. If you’ve always wanted to figure out your personal finances, set your mind to it and do it. Want to climb Mount Washington? Do it. Make your dreams realities, and you will see a huge impact on your self-esteem. Once enough of those goals and follow-throughs have been met, make a goal to be 100% over your ex, and follow through.

9. Online dating can be your friend.

If you’re broken-hearted, signing up for an online dating profile can be a great (and huge) step in the right direction. Now, compared to these other tips (like making goals, exercising, eating right), we admit that online dating is pretty small on this list. However, we don’t believe that a broken heart should make you stop believing in love. We don’t want you to turn into a sarcastic, jaded cynic. So we think that part of the healing process in overcoming heartbreak is the realistic understanding that while your love with one person doesn’t work out, you aren’t bereft of love forever. People can fall in love many, many times. It ain’t over ’til you’re dead!

10. Find solace in art and creativity.

Finding solace and comfort in art is a great way to get a grip on your emotions. Listening to Mozart’s Don Giovanni is quite a different experience when you’re experiencing unrequited love. You almost feel like Mozart is composing just for you. Same with less highbrow songs like “Hello” by Lionel Ritchie. Listening to music, reading poetry, and looking at art and photography is a great way to find solace in your difficult time. Even better, channel your sadness and grief into art itself. Write about your experiences. Paint a picture. Go out and take photos. Write an aria. Never lose faith in the healing and transformative powers of art.

photo credit: carbonnyc

By Juliet O

Zooskers often write in our Community Forums asking for advice on love. The Zoosk Community is incredibly supportive of each other, and when a Zoosker seeks love advice on the forums, other Zooskers weigh in and offer their assistance. It’s a nice feeling, knowing that there is a community of people willing to help you work through your love and relationship problems.

As more and more questions arise on our forums, we’ve discovered certain similarities among the questions we’ve seen. Questions often fall into distinct camps. And questions tend to be finite. We get a lot of the same questions over and over again. That should be reassuring news! This means that — for each person out there who has love or relationship problems — there are other people in the world with the same problems. You are not alone! And we want to help too. You don’t have to take our advice, or even listen to what we have to say, but we want you — yes, you! — out there to know that we really do care.

We want to participate in the conversation. So, each week we’ll be taking a question from the Zoosk Community Forums and giving our take on the situation. Unofficial advice from official Zoosk. Here’s this week’s question, posed by Zoosker Jay. This is taken from our Broken Heart, Now What forum.

I consider myself to be a nice person, my friends claim that I’m intelligent and funny, although I can be very cynical sometimes about my view of the world. I have no problems hanging out with guys. I can talk about sports, music, books, politics – you name it. I have no issues drinking a couple of beers and having some laughs.

Yet with girls, it’s somehow different, especially single girls. I’ve been investing time exercising and buying fashionable clothing, tried to learn things about girls… yet it’s very hard for me to approach them. I feel like this invisible shield that prevents me from being with them and feel really comfortable.

What we see here is the classic case of shyness. There isn’t anything wrong with Jay — he’s an attractive, intelligent, and interesting person. His problem lies around this very sentence: “it’s very hard for me to approach them”. Jay has no problem spending time with his male friends, but around women, he admits that he locks up. Many people have problems overcoming shyness or awkwardness around members of the opposite sex, but these problems can be overcome.

Shyness often stems from high degrees of self-consciousness in social settings. Self-consciousness can be extremely stifling — which explains the paralysis that shy feelings often induce. This is what you’ve called “an invisible shield”. There’s nothing weird about being shy, because we all experience timidness from time to time. It’s when shyness prevents you from living the life that you want to live, that it becomes a problem. And Jay’s shyness does prevent him from living that life. It’s difficult for him to approach women, and he feels highly uncomfortable when interacting with members of the opposite sex.

There are ways to deal with shyness but, like overcoming any obstacle, tackling shyness take practice and diligence. The first step is to understand that shyness is a problem. You must commit yourself to dealing with it, just as you would any other problem. Next, reflect on the things you enjoy about yourself: aspects of your personality that make you feel good as a person. Jay has already listed them for us: he is funny and intelligent, and he is a great conversationalist (when not around women) who can talk about sports, books, politics, music, and many other topics. Our advice for Jay is that he focus on his strengths, rather than his weaknesses, to help build the confidence he needs in order to approach women.

Another way to deal with shyness is to conquer your social anxiety. Jay needs to control those anxious feelings if he is to ever feel ‘normal’ in his interactions with potential dates. One method of dealing with anxiety is to physically (from a behavioral perspective) control anxiety’s effects (or ’symptoms’). It sounds cheesy, but focusing on your breath is really helpful. Don’t allow your nerves get the best of you. Take slow, calm breaths in tense situations. Breathing rhythmically tricks your body into believing that you aren’t anxious, and it really is possible to induce yourself to behave calmly.

It’s also important that you don’t flee from uncomfortable situations. When people say “face your fears,” they aren’t just repeating cliches for the heck of it. There really is truth to this saying. How are you ever going to grow as a person, if you let your fears get the best of you? Jay is probably better at talking to guys, because he’s had more practice doing so. He hangs out with his guy friends way more than he hangs out with single members of the opposite sex. He doesn’t have the same level of ‘behavioral practice’ around single women as he does with his platonic friends.

Our advice to Jay is to put himself in situations where he is forced to deal with women.

People learn things quickly. We adapt to new situations around us with ease that often times takes us by surprise. By putting himself around women, even if he flounders at first, Jay will realize over time when things work and when things well… fail. And there is no shame in failure, as long as you pick yourself up and learn from your mistakes. Everyone faces failure in the game of love. Sometimes we hit the jackpot, and sometimes we have spectacular losses. But we survive and grow as people, which is why despite how bruised we get along the way, we keep on fighting, round after round. Hope this helps you in your search, Jay.

photo credit: lepiaf.geo

By Juliet O

… Zoosk is introducing coins to our site! Why coins? Because we like shiny objects, and we like pirates, so it follows logically that our currency of choice on Zoosk would be gorgeous glistening gold doubloons.

Argg matey! So, with coins, (1) what are these pretty little babies, and (2) what can you spend them on? Currently, coins can be spent in 3 ways, depending on if you’re a premium subscriber or a basic member on Zoosk. Peep this.

A. If you are a premium or a basic member, you can buy gifts with coins — and gifts raise your chances of being responded to by 76% according to our last Zoosk survey. And now, with gift categories, we have tons of new gifts (including naughty ones) and sending them is easier now than ever. Who doesn’t want be surprised by a bouquet of roses, a chocolate covered strawberry, or a hot dog? Frankly, we’d love to get a hot dog.

B. Coins are used to unlock the “Who Viewed Me” functions on your Zoosk date card. In the image above, you see how this works. If you are a basic subscriber, you can check out the profiles of Zooskers who’ve viewed your date card by purchasing 15 coins. To unlock all the profiles, you can subscribe to premium membership. Why should you want to see the profiles of people who’ve viewed you? Notwithstanding the curiosity factor (you can’t see which people view you on Facebook or other social media sites, so Zoosk offers a fun way to see who’s stumbled across your profile), viewing is just another way of flirting. Everyone has been in the following situation: a hottie checks you out at a party or a bar, and both of you are too chicken to make the first move. You then stay up all night kicking yourself for not having the cojones to strike up a conversation. Don’t let this be a habit you take from the real world into the online dating world. If someone checks you out, don’t be shy. Carpe diem! Seize the day. Find out who they are, and send them a message first. Passivity is about as attractive as funky breath when it comes to the art of love.

C. Coins can be used for Boost. Boosting your profile guarantees you a set number of “Boost Views”, which means that your profile will appear that same, set number of times at the very top of a search result or on a Zoosk front page. Meaning, if you buy 500 Boosts, you will land at the top of the search results or the front page of Zoosk 500 individual times. How’s that for a leg up? You can even track your current Boost numbers by visiting your Settings tab and clicking on the Boost link (like in the photo above). See the icon with the lightening bolt on it? Click the icon with the word “Boost” next to it in order to track your views.

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By Juliet O

While most of you Zooskers probably couldn’t run a marathon with your legs, you sure know how to run them with your mouths. Your chat-alicious, loose-lipped, loud-mouthy, over-sharing, word-spitting ways have greatly endeared you to our hearts, and we applaud the fact that many of you have problems shutting the front door.

Our hyperactive community forums are one of the Zoosk features we’re most proud of, because the many voices on the forums come from YOU, the community, and the community is the life of Zoosk. It appears that the average Zoosker on our forums is chattier than an ADHD kid who just washed down all his Halloween candy with a 6-pack of Red Bull. You will get that talk on, and we find that to be a beautiful thing. On the forums, topics range from discerningly erudite (like intelligent reflections on the meaning of love) to unabashedly low-brow (like talking in detail about the female anatomy), and all these topics come together to form a mish mash, hodge podge, all-encompassing community board that accurately details all the multiplicity of things going through the collective mind of the Zoosk community, something we admire, foster, and want to actively engage. Today, we want to shine a spotlight on the community, because the community the shining light of Zoosk… and now we’re getting sentimental. Make it stop.

Topics on our forums range from fun stories, like best/worst pick-up lines and best/worst dates, to advice forums, like ask a girl and ask a guy topics, to regional forums, like the ones below, separated by country. Props to the Zooskers in the United Kingdom for having such serious chat mojo.

We also have a ton of great boards for people looking for love advice, which range from How to create a great Date Card to Single Parents to Broken-hearted, now what?. These forums are a great resource for those looking to find love on Zoosk, because they provide, figuratively, a ‘mental snap-shot’ of what Zoosk users are thinking, doing, and desiring, all of which are useful pieces of information for any Zoosk dater to have. You basically get an all-inclusive peek into the heart of your very own dating pool, which is priceless in the game of love.

Another plus of the forums? For every post you make, an automatic status update occurs on the activity feed of your date card, and an update gets published in our Zoosk Desktop application — which shows up on the desktop feed of local Zooskers in your area. Forums are a great way to put yourself out there on the radar screens of potential dates.

GLBT Voices and 50 Plus Singles are two of our newer forums on the boards, and we’re proud to create space for people of different real-life communities to have a place to grow a virtual-community on our site. As Zoosker AndreaNottingham says on GLBT Voices, “It’s nice to have our own little corner on here.” We couldn’t agree more!

I could sit here and talk all day about these forums (and trust me, I’m a real Chatty Kathy so I could, literally) but if you want to know more, hear more, see more, read more, check out our forums in person. They will provide you with a host of information, both useful and useless, mindful and mindless, and at the very least, if nothing else, then these forums will provide you with an endless source of entertainment. Trust me, you can easily get lost in the vortex.

So go ahead and run your mouth on Zoosk. We not only condone your excessive verbosity, we wholly endorse it.

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By Juliet O

There aren’t many situations in life where it’s acceptable to talk at length about yourself to random strangers without pause or interjection. Even less socially acceptable is to start disclosing, unprovoked, your life story, what you’re looking for in a life partner, your ideal date, your music taste, and your favorite movies — in rapid succession — to people you don’t know and have never met. We know people who do that in real life. They are called “crazy people”.

Unless, that is, you are writing your Zoosk online dating profile – in which case talking about yourself is not only appropriate, but encouraged. And totally sane, we promise.

We recently showed you how to create a date card that doesn’t suck. Now, we’re going to take things a step further and give you tips on how to write — or in more poetic terms, “trick out” — your date cards. The process of writing an online dating profile is essentially the same as the process of talking about yourself. And who doesn’t like talking about themselves? It’s easy. The hard part is finding someone willing to listen. On Zoosk, however, we are giving you the public license to say exactly what you want about yourself — and we are providing you with an entire pool of people who aren’t only willing but actually wanting to listen to what you have to say.

We are giving you a forum to to discuss your own psyches in intricate detail, and we want you to use this opportunity. Wisely.

Be a real person. Okay? Thanks.

The key to writing a good online dating profile is to be specific about who you are. We hate the kind of online dating profile that sounds as if the writer is tailoring his personality to what he thinks other people want to hear. Those sorts of generic, essentially meaningless profiles are exactly what don’t catch our eye. Imagine a profile that says, “I’m a nice caring person with a good heart. I am looking for an honest person who likes to have fun.” Seriously, what does that even mean? Everyone thinks they have ‘a good heart’ (even some really evil people). And of course you are looking for an ‘honest’ person. What else would you be looking for, a compulsive liar? And what is ‘fun’ precisely? Isn’t the concept of ‘fun’ different for different people? In the end, this profile says essentially nothing to me. Sure, it might attract some initial response, but that does nothing toward helping this person find real matches or create real connections with real people, because there’s nothing ‘real’ about this profile to begin with.

In the profile above, Zoosker alonewitheverybody takes time to lay out her personality. We see that she has fancy taste in films (Criterion Collection), listens to shoegaze, and openly admits that she likes critical theory. Some people won’t relate to her at all, but we like this kind of honesty, because she is obviously not trying to please everyone.

Here is an example of what not to do:

… no comment.

Ain’t no shame in filtering out the rejects!

We believe that an online dating profile should be an honest portrayal of your personality and act as a filter, nixing out all the unwanteds early on. If you look at the profile above, alonewitheverybody has no shame in saying exactly what it is that she is looking for; if the man isn’t hairy and doesn’t have tan ankles, she isn’t interested. It’s a little… strange… but at least she’s letting the dating pool know that pasty, hairless people need not apply!

It’s always a smart idea to say exactly what it is you do not want right away on your date card. Being forthright and upfront about your desires is not only good basic practice, but it also saves you and others precious time and energy to get this out right away and not have to deal with it later on. If you have deal breakers — like smoking, children, or cats — you should write those down in your profile right away. Otherwise you might be in for a sorry surprise — and some baby mama drama — later on. The more specific the better. Here’s an example from Zoosker Mike Martinez:

Anorexic supermodels need not apply, because this Zoosker wants a girl who is shorter than 5′5 whose weight is proportionate to her size. We think these sorts of specifics are really smart. Note that he also wrote that he wants a girl “between 25 and 30.” In a few short steps, he’s created age, height, and weight filters — and he notes that he prefers people who have matching political and religious views (another filter).

Channel your inner wordsmith

You don’t have to get all Shakespeare on us, but a little oratorical flair never hurts when attracting people to your date card. I like this excerpt from Zoosker Jessi’s date card. “I love thunderstorms but I can’t live without sunshine. I find beauty in almost everything about this incredible world we live in… I like to swing at the park, play in the snow, and stomp in puddles.”

Take some time to write descriptively. You have no idea how far a tiny bit of eloquence can get you in the world of online dating. Do you like hiking? Don’t just say “I like to hike.” Aim just a bit higher and say something like, “I love the serenity of standing atop a huge mountain, watching the horizon expand before me.” Do you like walks on the beach? Say “There’s nothing more beautiful to me than a Caribbean beach at sunset, where the stars appear bigger and brighter than everywhere else on earth.” Do you hate life and people? Say “There is nothing more unbearable to me than the company of other people, in this meaningless existential wasteland we call living.” Whatever it is that you have to say, use descriptive language to spice it up.

A little charm goes a long way

If we had to write a list of things that we particularly find un-charming, we’d put offensive language, vulgarity, bad spelling, and bad grammar on the top. And somehow, these things occasionally find their way onto peoples’ online dating profiles — which makes us scratch our heads and wonder how on earth this could possibly happen.  Why would anyone want to date an offensive, vulgar person who has problems communicating effectively? Ask yourself, when editing your date card, “Would I date this person?”

There are some important red flags to avoid — angry rants about previous relationships, overboard negativity about your own life, too much disclosure about money or personal finances — when composing your online dating profile. A good rule in determining what kind of content to avoid is a simple reflection on the power of charm.

What kind of people are charming? Generally, they’re positive, friendly, and humble. Charming people have the undeniable ability to attract others to them. They are, simply put, fun to be around. We know each and every person has the ability to be charming. It isn’t particularly difficult. All it takes is a certain level of mindfulness and a little bit of effort. And charm will go a long way with your fellow Zooskers. Because charming people get dates. Lots of dates.

For more on how to compose date cards, check out the community forums for tips on how to create a great date card. And, as a one time special offer only, I’ll personally help the first five Zooskers who contact me on Facebook in editing and composing their own date cards. Let pimp them out!

photo credit: le vent le cri

Monday just went from blaaaahhh to YAYYYYY, ‘cuz Zoosk Desktop is here to help you keep the spirit of the weekend going all week long. What’s Zoosk Desktop, you might ask? We reply — in our most falsely modest voice — that we dared, we hustled, and here’s what we got: the very first downloadable desktop application ever introduced for a social online dating community. Or, in simpler terms, Zoosk Desktop is a ridiculously awesome new way to be on the prowl… rawr.

By downloading Zoosk Desktop, you get a real-time stream of activity by other Zooskers in your local area who match your search criteria (you’re notified when new posts on community forums are made, new pics are uploaded, new users join, etc) as well as instant notifications when you receive winks, emails, likes, or virtual gifts. Zoosk Desktop links you directly to your ZooskBox and other Zooskers’ date cards and makes online dating simple, fast, and accessible wherever you may be online — really, it’s so good, it feels wrong (and wrong never felt so right). Also, Zoosk Desktop let’s you stay on Zoosk without having your browser open, so it’s super discreet (so you don’t have to worry about the boss, the roommates, or anyone else looking over your shoulder as you search for cuties online).

Zoosk makes online dating so easy, my grandmother could do it.

Download it now!

This is what it looks like when you install the application:

There is a feedback button! Please use it and tell me you love me. Or, if not that, then send us feedback if you have any issues whatsoever with the application or have any questions about how to use it. We are here to help. Obviously, you can always go to our support page too! Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for more rad updates from the Zoosk team — we have tons and tons of goodies in store for you. And, lucky for you, our goodies don’t stay in the jar.

Friday the 13^th may be unlucky for some, but the winks and flirts that we saw at Zoosk’s Lunch 2.0 on Friday put this superstition to rest faster than the speed of cupid’s arrow. (Cupid was also kind enough to make an appearance)

Described by many who attended as a “new kind of Lunch 2.0″, we perpetuated the Valentine’s Day theme by bringing the virtual trademark of Zoosk, the Date Card, to life as an actual Date Card that attendees could wear. Exchanging stickers to decorate the date card that were marked as flirts and winks, as well as reading the creative ways people chose to describe themselves, was an immediate ice breaker.

The goal was to be able to turn in your date card for a box of See’s Valentine’s chocolate by collecting at least 6 flirt or wink stickers. We found that by the end of the lunch it wasn’t even necessary to have chocolate as an incentive. In fact, thoughts of bon bons had been wiped from our memory as the crowd started dancing with the DJ! Networking, flirting, food, beer, and dancing…truly not bad ways to spend a lunch break!

This year The New York Times recently noted a National Retail Federation Survey that predicted that average consumer spending on Valentine’s Day would be lower than the two previous years. Zoosk knows that online resources provide cheaper alternatives that don’t cheapen the romance. Even the free-access social networking site, Facebook, is calling out its activity in matchmaking, highlighting Zoosk as an effective way to find a date for V-day!

Aaah Valentine’s Day with Zoosk, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…

His post is fairly balanced at times criticizing us for a few features that we are missing at the moment. But Zooskers don’t be worried, they on their way and coming very quickly. Zoosk is just getting started to shake the online dating world.