An attribute of the private online dating model is that it is a quality play versus a quantity numbers game.

It is proactive model, but one does have to develop their network much like LinkedIn, for example. However, you do NOT have to import your address book although you can but with Sparkbliss it does not auto-email when you do so.

The concept steals from “six degrees of separation” and yes, the leverage will come from friends of your friends and so on. Your friends will occasionally set you up, but if you develop your own social network for dating then the likelihood that your friends will keep you in mind will increase and translate into more qualified introductions.

I agree this appears to be niche, but that is only because people are trapped by conventional online dating thinking. Private online dating is something anybody who is dating should consider. It is a perfect complement to any single’s strategy if they want to meet the right person. If they just want something of less integrity then options abound.

Try privateonlinedating.com and you will come to appreciate its unconventional approach and positive results.

Only exposing yourself to safe known referenced introductions greatly reduced the traffic on your site, you’re a serious dater niche, albeit a nice place to be with Engage, until someone else comes in an upsets that corner of the market by going after serious 20-somethings, which is potentially a much larger audience and more inclined to experiement with new dating concepts.

As we all know, conventional online dating will ultimately make you sick to your stomach. It is not private, safe, nor especially productive when it comes to meeting the right people. If you are like me and value your privacy and/or safety, then you owe it to yourself to investigate private online dating.

Consider the revelation from a published sex study: 62% of married people meet through their networks of friends. Private online dating automates this reliable and familiar scenario. With private online dating members develop their own private, “trusted” social networks and through friends of friends receive romantic introductions.

Private, for example: individual profiles are confidential; you only search for profiles inside your own trusted network; each member develops his/her own private social network of trusted friends and family; only a member’s trusted network can view his/her profile; if a member deletes a connection, it is reciprocally deleted.

Safe, for example: you don’t have to expose yourself to people you don’t know; references and testimonials will accompany romantic introductions; credibility of romantic introductions can be further verified by asking member of your network for additional information; this serves to avoid questionable activity including romance scams and online predatory behavior; photos and profiles are genuine; private network members will not make introductions if information is inaccurate; it’s moderated by your friends and family.

To my knowledge, the only vendor espousing the virtues of the niche known as “private online dating” which is a superset of what Engage.com calls “social dating” is Sparkbliss.com or privateonlinedating.com.