March 31, 2010 – While Facebook has become the most popular social network for communicating with family and friends, its generic profiles aren’t suitable for online dating and there is no easy way to find matches or make those special connections. Enter Smartdate.
Smartdate.com (www.smartdate.com)
Users of the dating site can meet the friends of their Facebook friends, based on their own compatibility criteria. According to Smartdate Founder and CEO Fabrice Le Parc, this function provides the dating public with a way to meet people on the Internet that is more realistic and closer to real life.
“There is no more reliable group of people to search for a date or even a life partner, online or offline, than from friends of friends,” said Le Parc. “It’s the safest, surest, most foolproof way to find a soul mate, or just to meet interesting people – and Smartdate.com makes it easy to do with Facebook.”
With Smartdate’s Facebook Connect feature, members can import whatever information they choose from their Facebook profile directly to their Smartdate profile and add to it for dating. As a result, there’s no need to create multiple profiles from scratch.
Smartdate.com has released the beta version of its website.
In addition, Smartdate is the first dating site to incorporate a “life stream” into each user’s profile, by taking feeds from other aspects of the user’s online life, including, Twitter, Facebook and Netflix. This information gives members a clearer, truer picture of the personalities, tastes and interests of other members.
Smartdate offers a credits service – another first for an online dating site. With “Pay As You Go,” members only pay according to their actions on the site. Smartdate also offers a subscription-
About Fabrice Le Parc – Smartdate Founder & CEO
Before becoming a figure of European online dating, Fabrice Le Parc graduated from leading European Business School HEC Paris in 1999, and worked in various start-ups.
He decided in 2003 to take part in two reality dating shows for the fun of it: Operation Seduction on M6 in France and The Bachelorette on ABC in the US.
Fabrice Le Parc launched be2 in France and Benelux in 2006-07. Within two years, be2 became the second largest dating site in those markets with over 18 million registered users.
His main drive is to change the way people interact and he was naturally driven to setting up innovative online dating companies.
