Following a well driven survey, Match.com in association with Southwest airways has pronounced Miami’s South Beach as the best place to be for single person who are willing to go on a summer vacation.

Miami is well known for its heat and beautiful beaches; exactly the environment in which one is prone to meet bachelors and single women. The survey has revealed that South Beach has obtained the most amount of votes i.e. 43 % for the beach crowded with most singles.

Miami Beach tops the list of standings in front of Key West FL (17.2%), Manhattan Beach, CA (12.1%), South Padre Island, TX (10.1%), Waikiki Beach, HI (9.3 %), Hamptons, NY (7.5%) in accordance to the survey.

Match.com has made a name for itself in the Online Dating world. Many singles has found love via this website. It takes into consideration loads of aspect before finding the perfect match for its subscribers. Goals, interests, personalities are among the long list of features on which the dating website lays emphasis on. It works in partnership with a bunch of well-known dating sites in several countries.

Southwest Airlines is a low fare carrier and has been in the business for about 39 years and it serves now in 69 cities of 35 different states. What differentiates Southwest from other companies of the same market is that its motto is Performance, People and Planet. The airline company tends to give much importance to customer service and that exactly the reason behind its success and makes it the most honored airlines of the planet.

The two companies have shared their strength to help individuals to find the perfect date during their holidays. “Bachelors and Bachelorettes” can enter a competition where they have the chance to win two roundtrip tickets to any destination operated by Southwest Airlines. Furthermore, once a contestant has entered the competition, he/she can log on to the airline’s online travel community and share photos, videos and so on.

The survey has not only showed that Miami Beach is the most suitable place to meet singles but has given several other results about the tendencies and habits of single people going on holidays.

• 71.6 % of singles has revealed that a beautiful beach is the first thing that they take into consideration before booking their holidays according.
• Almost half of the singles say that lying by a pool is the activity they love the most when being on vacation.
• 12.5 % are willing to share a hotel room with someone after knowing the person for one week only
• 56.7 % must absolutely have their camera on them when going on vacation
• Honolulu is qualified as the most romantic city of the States according to 40.5 %
• 44.7 % of singles would go on a walk on the beach as it is the most romantic thing ever.

So, who are these people who are being known as the “Date Crashers” ? According to a website specialized in the online dating, this particular term refers to someone joining a site not corresponding at all to their criteria. These people join dating sites where they will are at risk to meet opposite profiles. They do not take in consideration any cultural or religious aspect into account.

Nowadays, it is essential to consider online dating sites come in a several flavors. For making online dating easier, some have not hesitated to create online dating sites grounded on specific themes. You will easily spot some sites created for a particular religion or ethnicity or even on your skin color. There is a slight minority that might be showing a racist ideology but most of the sites show clearly that it is just a facility offered to the web users for well situating themselves.

The “Date Crashers” do nothing wrong while joining these kinds of online dating sites for the fact that they are looking for other singles sharing the same interests. Unfortunately, this action is misinterpreted and many people show a concern about the “Date Crashers” stealing the show.

According to a renowned psychotherapist, the “Date Crashers” are not motivated just by their nastiness, but by the urge to meet the right person through all the possible means, even if they need to go off limits.

If you are one of these folks, the best thing will be to stick to classic online dating sites. This is because if you get on themed-based sites, you will not meet the right person and as a matter of fact you may also disappoint soeone!

Forget Speed Dating. Britain‘s Singles Now Prefer Slow Dating to Speed Dating.

Forget 7 minutes per single adult.

Now it’s 20 hours on each first date!

This results from a study done by Parship.co.uk:

- 18 Million First Dates in 2008, With 68% Initiated Online
- The Average First Date Lasts Over 4 Hours
- Build-up to Each First Date Occupies 12 hours.

1 The set-up – 5 hours 36 mins
2 Pre-date fantasy – 4 hours 45 mins
3 Pre-date preparation – 2 hours
4 The date itself – 4 hours 18 mins
5 Post-date analysis – 3 hours 30 mins
Total: 20 hours.

More than 10 hours before meeting up.

So what about a new concept called Slow Dating instead of Speed Dating.

Slow dating = you better now the person.. it’s obvious.

What about a slow dating during weeks or months..? ; -)

Friends often ask for advice when it’s that time of the year. You know, Christmas or birthday time. My men friends need ideas for their girlfriends and vice versa. So I started a list and asked. What is the best gift you ever received from a boyfriend?

I thought I would get all these wonderful answers and primarily expected to hear about cute little diamond rings or diamond tennis bracelets. Those were the least bountiful stories in my collection. Not even enough of them to mention diamonds. It seems men just don’t give diamonds often during the dating phase.

The more stories I heard made me less hopeful about compiling an all-time extravaganza gift list for my friends. After I heard about the George Forman Grill gift and the matching sweatshirts a boyfriend had made with a larger than life picture of the couple on the front, I knew it was my duty to come up with an appropriate list to stop this madness.

The best gifts were:

1. A jar full of 365 notes to tell his girlfriend every day of the year why he loved her. Ahh, isn’t that too much? The boyfriend admitted it took him a while to write them.

2 A book of email correspondence from and to each other during the first year the couple dated. “I still have it,” said the girlfriend.

3. Someone’s boyfriend had gone to Hawaii with his family and brought back a bamboo journal with a frog hand painted on the front. He got it for his girlfriend because she liked frogs and she liked to write.

4. A girl said her boyfriend took her dog sledding in Maine. “I almost died but I had an awesome time!”

5. “A boyfriend once took me on a Christmas day sleigh ride in Vermont. There were jingling bells and the driver was wearing 1800’s garb. We used wool blankets to keep warm. It was so romantic and the best gift I ever received.” said the girlfriend.

This is a start on my gift list. There are some things they have in common. The best gifts were not always expensive. The best gifts were creative and didn’t come wrapped, like the romantic sleigh ride. The jar full of 365 love notes was creative and not wrapped. Some gifts were “experience” gifts like dog sledding in Maine. Some were intimate, thoughtful, hand made or based on the girlfriend’s passion like the journal a young man brought home to his girlfriend after the family vacation.

Mull these ideas over in your mind. What is her passion? How can I best express her passion in a gift? What message do I want to send with the gift? Romantic, friendly, adventurous, practical, down right laughable fun? How about sending your message through poetry or music?

Lingering Last Drops by Walt Whitman

And whence and why come you?

We know not whence (was the answer)

We only know that we drift here with the rest,

That we linger’d and lagg’d — but were wafted at last,

and are now here, to make the passing showers concluding drops

To get some ideas visit the following website for gifts of poetry.

http://www.agiftofpoetry.com/

Go with your heart and you’re gift will be a winner . Happy gifting.

Askmen, a website dedicated to male just launched Askmen Dating in partnership with Match.

The section is called Askmen Dating & Sex.

The partnership will allow Ask men visitors to browse profiles before registering.

AskMen.com was founded in August 1999 by Ricardo Poupada, Christopher Bellerose Rovny and Luis Rodrigues.

It is the largest men’s lifestyle website with 7.2 million unique visitors in 2007 according to comScore.