Friday, December 6, 2002
Holiday season is dating season
A story published today by the Chicago Sun Times reports that gor singles who spent Thanksgiving fending off nosy questions about their love lives, this is crunch time to have a date by Christmas. Or at least by New Year's.
Every year about this time, dating services enroll a crush of new members.
The pace picks up every year, said P.J. Osgood, a matchmaking director at It’s Just Lunch, starting with a slight uptick in October and building to a crescendo in December. There will be a slight lull around Christmas and then another rush of New Year's resolvers who've sworn to find Mr. or Ms. Right in time for Valentine's Day.
Match.com, the online dating site, registered 800,000 new users last December, and Kathleen Roldan, the company's director of dating, predicts this year will bring a similar influx.
"We're gearing up for a very busy holiday season," Roldan said.
"It's a triple whammy," said Paul Falzone, CEO of the country's largest dating service, the Right One. "You get Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, all these occasions when your family is asking about who you're dating, when you've got events to go to and you're reflecting on the passage of another year."
