Timing is everything in life and dating and mating is no different.

With that being said, when is the right time to tell the man you’re dating that you want commitment?

This Your Tango video gives you what I think to be the right answer. That is to say make him choose you. Make him want you so bad that he has to have you. Make him desire no one but you.

This will placate his ego and put you in the best possible position even though you are still only dating. In this way he satisfies his need to hunt for his rightful mate and be the king of his (and your) jungle.

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Dating 2.0 defined or are members of Facebook just having too much sex?

Facebook seems to be scoring more and more these days…so to speak. Wait, I mean people are scoring more and more through Facebook! In the case of one medical report, Facebook users maybe scoring a little too much=)

No doubt men and women will be scoring more and more through Web 2.0 social media sites like Twitter, MySpace and even LinkedIn.

The question is will consenting adults use free social media websites over paid dating sites like eHarmony and even free sites like PlentyofFish?

Let me know your top 5 websites to meet Mr. Right.

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Another great video from Your Tango.

It gives you five seemingly common sense rules of the road for traveling on the Facebook superhighway.

It also shows us how relationships can spiral out of control once someone steps over the line. The Web 2.0 has blurred the line of communication particularly when it comes to love and dating. Just as in emailing and texting, Facebook communication can lead to misunderstandings that wouldn’t happen if two people were talking to each other face to face.

One thing that can’t be confused is when you change your relationship status from in a relationship to single without letting the other person know. Once the other person finds out they won’t so much be confused as hurt and angry. It’s never easy to let someone know you’re breaking it off and it probably never will be.

The other rules seem like simple stuff:

1. Don’t form hate groups
2. Don’t post embarrassing pictures of people
3. Don’t steal friends
4. Be careful of what you post

The only rule I don’t quite agree with is #3. I think that if two people are dating and they make friends with each others friends then that constitutes separate friendships. But that’s just me.

Love to know what you all think about Facebook, dating and the right way to handle them

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Great article today in the New York Times on what MySpace might do to re-make it’s image given how much better Facebook is attracting an audience. I’m sure Fox Television will soon have a reality show called Internet Makeovers Revealed!

But I digress.

Speaking of makeovers, how’s your dating life going? Could it use a makeover? If someone offered it to you for peanuts would you take it?

If you did the dating makeover, how would your life change? Would you have the man and life of your dreams? Would you have the white picket fence, 2.3 kids, dog, cat and accoutrement?

Just how would your life look if you mastered dating and relationships? Can you visualize it? Can you feel the happiness? Can you taste, touch and smell what it would be like?

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Great article today by Chicago Tribune reporter Wailin Wong.

She writes that Facebook may make reunions unnecessary. She goes further to say that Facebook does pretty much the same thing without the hassle of having to meet people you don’t really care about.

While I agree that having conversations with people you didn’t know in High School or college could get annoying (for both them and me), I believe that as a society we need all the chances we can get to interact one on one with each other.

I’ve written before on how dangerous Web 2.0 websites can be to your relationships and even suggested in one post that Facebook could be the end of the humanity as we know it. To my estimation the end of reunions could be the beginning of the end.

This is the danger as I see it. First reunions stop then dating and then marriage. Why go out dating to find a mate when you can just email or interact on Facebook? Dating and love are wrought with conflicts that most would rather not have face to face so Web 2.0 can alleviate most of this.

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I’ve had some questions come up about my interview this Monday at 7PM. http://wms.artistfirst.fastserv.com/artistfirst

In an effort to give you a sneak peek at what we’ll be talking about. Here are some of the talking points:
1. What are the 5 Rules of Engagement?
2. What are the 5 Signs of a Commitment Ready Man?
3. What are the 3 Questions to Kill the Relationship before it even starts
4. What are the 3 Trademarks of a Loving and Thoughtful Communication
5. What are 3 Questions to ask your guy to put your relationship on steroids
6. Why might Facebook end up being the death of us all?
7. What can Donald Trump teach us about love and marriage?!
8. Is it Nurture or Nature that makes men the way they are?
9. What are 3 ways to put your love life on The Fast Track Towards Marriage
10. How did you get into this line of work?

Hope you can all be on the call!

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One of the best movies I’ve ever seen in a long while was Children of Men starring Clive Owen. In the movie, set twenty-five years from now, Man has gone sterile and the world in turn has gone to hell and a hand basket. No one knows why, but women can’t get pregnant anymore.

I bring this up because I was recently talking to a friend from San Francisco when she stated that the rich men she and her friends have dated are different from middle class men.

How so, I asked?

She said that the rich men don’t “need” women and are happy to share this with the women they date. According to my friend, if women don’t like this, the rich guy will politely show them the door. According to my friend, rich men are upfront and honest with the fact that they’re only in it for the “fun”.

My friend pointed out that rich men don’t need their lovers to perform the traditional wifely duties. They can get someone to do their laundry, cook their food, and raise their kids. They can even get someone to have their kids!

The other interesting thing is that today’s rich men don’t go forth and spread their seed like rich men of centuries past. Until recently, rich men have always sought to procreate with as many women as possible(whether married to the women or not) in order to pass on their genetic code to the next generation. In this way, they preserved their legacy. In the middle east for example, rich men could take on as many wives as they could afford.
Yet, today’s rich men refuse to bond with today’s women in oder to pass on their genetic code through their offspring!

How could this be?

I think the answer is deceptively simple. The rich men of today can leave their legacy like no men in history have ever been able to do. Through the internet and incredible networking applications like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and many others, rich men can leave a permanent footprint on millions of people. In a sense, men can pass themselves on through their networks without having to commit to a woman.

What’s more, this is done virally. The most children a man ever had was just over 1000. For those thousand to spread out into the world and in turn spread his genetic footprint would take generations. Today, Google, Yahoo, YouTube and the like can spread an idea to millions in a matter of seconds.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that the rich men of today really aren’t different. They’ve simply found a much simpler and trouble free way to spread their legacy. A much bigger question that comes to mind is how long until middle class men start thinking the same way? Will this lead to fewer pregnancies? Will this lead to the end of love? Could this be the end of us?

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