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Readers Knoelle and Brad found a better pair of codes this weekend that lets expired members pay only $6.41 / month for 8 months. They saved $190 and got 82% off.

If you don’t want to pay for 8 months, earlier there was also $8.70 / month for 4 months.

This price point already undersells all major paid sites and many much smaller niche dating sites. Just how low will the price go? Let’s see what happens next.

One of our readers taught us this evening how expired members can get $8.70 / month for 4 months. (You save $125 or get 78% off.) Why didn’t I think of this?!

Those “20% off a 6-month subscription” codes that other websites give out are almost useless.

News: The recently-concluded FGCE is the busiest ever for our promo codes page. From Friday July 23 to Monday August 2, 1266 out of 2214 voters (57%) found a working code and saved a total of $78,976. The average savings is $62. The average discount is 65%. But not every reader voted though. According to Google Analytics, a total of 18200 unique visitors came, and if we presume 57% of them found a working code, the promo codes page had saved 10400 people a total of $651,900.

Sometimes I need to state the obvious, especially when the obvious is happening lately to close friends.

• Facebook can reintroduce you to that girl whom you were too goofy to ask out in high school …, or to her sister.
• Felt a connection with someone at a friend’s birthday party, bar mitzvah or baby shower? Browsing friend lists can be an alternative to swapping phone numbers and can be even easier if the gathering was put together as an event in Facebook.
• Facebook’s Friend Suggest feature can be a great way to meet guys.
• E-cards, youtube videos and photos can make great ‘thinking about you’ presents across thousands of miles.
• 30% of female and 40% of male Facebook users are listed as single. (FB Data Team, Feb 2010)

While Facebook dating apps went nowhere in the past year, and Facebook transforming itself into a dating site can only be an April Fools joke, Facebook is a gaining alternative to posting personal ads and waiting for hits.

Particularly when there’s a growing contention that “29 Dimensions” and such things is crud.

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• SingleGuyInNC wrote

  This is a somewhat scary revelation about Facebook and dating: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/21/does-facebook-know-who-youll-date-next/ …

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