Speed Dating – Quickest Way To Find Your Significant Other

Speed Dating – Quickest Way To Find Your Significant Other

Yes, the concept of speed dating is older than 20 years and was introduced by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo somewhere in 1990 as a way of encouraging young Jewish singles to find more singles to mingle on a common community platform in a safe environment for the purpose of matrimony.

Ever since then, speed dating has taken off in a popular and racy way in the US and other parts of the world with even night clubs and party boutiques taking to the concept in a big way and lots of big advertising bucks being spent on this idea that allows singles to check out anywhere between 10 to 50 partners for dating in less than an hour.

Mostly equal number of men and women are invited to such speed dating venues that are often backed by corporate sponsorships or restaurants or other such business community outfits that benefit from couples dating, wherein a specific time of say 2, 5 or 10 minutes is given to each person to approach and impress the man or woman they are interested in and make a date for themselves.

During this timed session, the potential partners need to impress their good qualities and fun aspects to the person sitting across them and check out their compatibility in a quick-time question-answer session; a record sheet may be kept with interesting facts and points the person checking out the dates and this is used at the end of the session for calling back the most probable partner.

This means there are quick moves to be made since it is very limited time span for checking out and choosing the right dating partner for yourself and thus, snap judgments are the order of the day in speed dating venues.

So, appearances matter and so do communication skills besides an attitude to match the one of the person sitting across you: analyzing you and either passing or failing you mentally based on the way you approach them. Do remember to keep a check on your grooming, conversation and tone besides basic manners that can make or break your date potential with the person.

Ask pertinent, but not too probing personal questions so you too can choose or eliminate a match for yourself; e.g. if you are a strict vegetarian, you may not quite fall for someone who is a voracious meat eater or advocates something you don’t like smoking or alcohol. Do remember to check out these points whether going in for speed dating in person or on online dating websites.

Thus, remember that checking out speed dating adverts provide an easy and cost-effective, not to mention time-saving way to find a date or even a potential matrimonial alliance. You can attend these in person or by surfing the site offering various profiles of people looking for partners; it goes without saying that their popularity is not something you can judge their security by and so you need to be discreet about yourself also without appearing unfriendly. Attend a few venues to know their potential – speed dating is fun, frivolous or even exciting if you are open to its potential!