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Facebook chat is rolled out to just about everyone today. When chat is tied into Facebook dating applications things are going to get interesting. Reminds me of Userplane’s desktop presence if you have Facebook notifications turned on.

Conversation is getting broken down into increasingly smaller chunks. What is our attention threshold for paying attention to people and how does that fit into communicating with other singles on the Internet?

At some point, Twitter may pass webchat as the most useful way to keep in touch via short messages with people across multiple dating sites. Will chat applications embrace Twitter and inter-operate?

The days of belonging to and communicating with people on one dating site are coming to an end. The web is getting too fragmented and dating sites need to start working together or risk losing members to more open platforms, which I’ll be talking about more in the future.

Posting about Twitterdating tomorrow.