Online Dating Sucks (Or I Love it when I’m Right!)

My second ever Valley Girl column was about how dead online dating is as an industry. I patted myself on the back over my lead for weeks, Burt Helm got mad at me for quoting him, and Owen Thomas said I was cruel for mocking the tools of the loveless while I enjoy a “hunky” photographer husband. My father-in-law (armed with Google alerts) was thrilled to see his son was considered “hunky” by gay bloggers everywhere.

But a lot of people said I was wrong about online dating. Well, I wasn’t. The top five dating sites have lost 7% market share in the last year as niches are about the only thing working. And guess what? Niches don’t make big publicly traded companies. The very savvy Mark Brooks breaks it down for you as a guest contributor on TechCrunch.

Boo ya, Valley Girl haters!