| eHarmony.com sued for excluding homosexuals
LOS ANGELES, Calif. A Los Angeles woman has sued the popular online dating site eHarmony.com, claiming she was discriminated against based on her sexual orientation when the Web site refused to pair her with another woman. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical with ties to Focus on the Family, and it has grown to more than 12 million registered users, according to Reuters. The lawyer for the woman, Linda Carlson, said the lawsuit was "about changing the landscape and making a statement out there that gay people, just like heterosexuals, have the right and desire to meet other people with whom they can fall in love." Carlson is urging fellow homosexuals to join the class action lawsuit geared toward forcing eHarmony to change its policy.
When twentysomething cashiers and baby boomers collide
Even their social networks are maintained via technology — text messages, instant messages, and Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.To put it in words a boomer can understand, face-to-face interaction just isn't their bag.“They're clueless," said Franni Segal, 55, a travel agent with a degree in retailing. “They're more interested in talking to their friends. They have no incentive to make the sale."When she was in her 20s, working on commission as an assistant manager at Bonwit Teller, she recalled, she and her colleagues eagerly courted customers. “Today when you go into a store, they're not interested in your needs. . . . With the kind of service you get now, you might as well be on the Internet."‘It drives me crazy'Neil Simpkins, a boomer who waited tables and tended bar as a young man, said he was appalled by what passed for service these days.“It drives me crazy," said Simpkins, 53, an account supervisor for LevLane Public Relations in Center City, Pa..Last week at Macy's, he was hurried and a little lost while searching for winter gloves.
ViewDate.com Announces World's First Online Speed Dating Service
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewDate, the world's first website to offer online speed dating services, today announced another free invitation-only dating session on its revolutionary website, http://www.viewdate.com Connie Jinq, ViewDate's founder, started ViewDate after hearing feedback from frustrated friends who had tried traditional speed dates and online dating. Both seemed promising, but fundamentally flawed. Ms. Jinq realized that these flaws could make meaningful relationships difficult to foster. With the help of her fiancee and friends, ViewDate was created to address these flaws and make to online dating a more personal, enjoyable experience. ViewDate allows users to see and speak to each other in real time over the Internet, and a full-fledged profile, search and messaging system lets them keep in touch between events.
Hi-ho, the derry-o, a farmer meets a girl
When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. But Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. "I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it," says the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill. "It dawned on me -- why waste any more of your time, or my time?" .
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