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Advice on Senior Dating for the Woman or man over 40...
Senior
dating when you're only 41? At this website we reserve the term
'senior dating' for those over 60 (see our senior
dating personals section), but it appears that many websites
are now using the term to apply to the over 40s, no more! In the
article below, guest author Alison Braidwood considers this 'agey'
topic.
Senior Online
Dating - A Terrible Name for a Good Idea
By Alison
Braidwood
Senior dating
websites are popping up all over the internet, as enterprising entrepreneurs
clue in to the fact that the older population has plenty of money
to spend online. And the "older" group they're targeting are singles
over 40 years of age.
Yes, 40 is the
age at which we become "seniors" in the online dating game. Egads,
you say? It's a terrible thing, to be feeling young and funky one
moment, innocently surfing the net, only to stumble across information
that immediately makes you feel 1000 years old.
If reading this
now is having the same effect on you, we apologize. Really.
Take solace
in the knowledge that it's not entirely universal, this over-40
senior thing. Some mature dating sites only identify you as a senior
dater if you're over-50. That's a relief, then.
How is it that
someone from a healthy young adult demographic (and 40 is
still young), can morph overnight into a "senior" anything? It's
entirely possible that the culprit is some anonymous internet marketer
who decided that he needed to create a new dating niche. The online
romance business is intensely competitive and many people are making
fortunes, but it's probably hard for newbies to break into. Maybe
they needed to narrow down the field and re-brand senior dating
to include the over-40s in order to compete. Who knows?
So, the name
is terrible. Senior dating, indeed. But if we can get over the indignity
of the label, then the idea has possibilities. If a dating site
only accepts registrations from a certain age group, then it could
have the beneficial effect of filtering out time wasters and increasing
your chances of meeting like-minded people.
After all, the
selection criteria, aside from age, is still pretty much the same.
You can still search for dog-lovers, garden gnome haters, and fellow
Trekkies, if that's your thing. Now if only we could convince the
government to start paying us our pensions at 40. Then we'd have
loads more time to devote to online dating.
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