Events Calendar
We’ve started adding events to our events calendar. If you want to join in any of the events, you should contact the event’s organiser. Just click on the event in the calendar, and you will be taken to the appropriate website.
Many events book up quickly, and some of them try to balance the male/female ratio – women’s places often fill the quickest.
If you’re an event organiser, please contact us to submit your event.
Online Dating Survey
The recent survey Christian121 undertook wanted to find out what information people wanted to be able to find (and filter for) in a dating website.
We listed a few attributes that we thought people would like to be able to search for. In particular, we were interested to see if there were any differences between what men and women wanted to see the most. For example, just over 60% of men thought that searching by denomination was either very important or important whereas, just under 40% of women thought so, most women were indifferent to denomination, and about the same percentage thought it was not important or not important at all.
We also wanted to know what kind of geographic space folk wanted to be able to filter for, so we asked whether people wanted to be able to search by miles, city, or region. Roughly 60% of women said that all three options were very important or important. Men were more interested in being able to filter by region, with nearly 90% saying it was very important or important.
When it came to the social attributes of income and work status we found some interesting differences: 16% of women wanted to be able to filter by income, but not one male respondent said it was very important or important, with 81% saying it was not important or not important at all, compared with 40% of women. We see a similar divergence with work status where 13% of men thought it was very important or important, but 37% of women thought it was important or very important.
We noted that in some of the comments respondents left, women also wanted to be able to know about daters’ church status – leadership roles within church. One male respondent said that instead of income he wanted to filter by intellect.
Survey Data
Conclusions
I don’t have any statistics for it, but I think it’s probably fair to say that most websites are designed by men. For me it was interesting to be reminded that men and women want different things from a website, especially, it would seem, from a dating site. I rather suspect that as far as income goes, it isn’t so much that men aren’t interested in filtering by income and status than they don’t want to be filtered by income and status – or is that just me!?
The questions we asked only skimmed the surface, some of the comments people wrote highlighted some other things daters are interested to see in a dating site. We’d love to hear what you think.
Test Event
Title: Test
Location: London, England
Link out: Click here
Description: This is a test event – if you have an event you want to publish – drop us a line.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-03-28
New blog
Hello folks. This is the first entry for a new blog on online dating for Christians.
Online dating has really taken off in a big way over the past few years, so it’s only natural that Christians also start using dating websites. But it’s a big step for most people to start using them. Does it mean that you are a loser, desperate, Billy or Billie no mates? No, I don’t think so. On the whole people who use dating websites are people who lead busy lives and simply don’t have the time, or perhaps in the inclination, to hang out in bars or church-surf on the off-chance of meeting someone.
For Christians the difficulties of meeting someone special can be even more acute – especially if you are committed to a small church – because we just may not be meeting other single Christians frequently enough to build a relationship. So dating websites can be a key to meeting the right person, and if you use a website that other Christians use, then it can be even easier to meet someone.
Over the coming days and weeks I will be posting the results of some research into dating websites Christian121 did last year. I’ve decided to close the survey down for now, but may carry out some other surveys as time goes on.
That’s all for now.
