OkTrends- Blog Review

                                                 By Darina Prokofyeva

Finding a good relationship and dating blog is a very hard thing to do. There are so many of them on the Internet in our modern days. it is hard to find a good blog with a good quality information, a lot of research and a lot of observations and statistics. After spending several hours of searching and sorting through blogs and websites I finally found a good one that includes both research, observations and statistics. The blog is http://blog.okcupid.com/. OkTrends is original research and insights from OkCupid biggest free dating site in the U.S. The blog complied observations and statistics from hundreds of millions of OkCupid user interactions. OkTrends has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Inc., The Atlantic, and on Nightline and the Rachel Ray Show.

This blog is really interesting and easy to use. At the bottom right of the homepage there is a box where you can select different topics you are interested in reading about. I really like how this website uses charts and graphs that shows the research that has been done. You can look up topics on relationships and dating that interest you such as The Mathematics of Beauty, The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures. Some topic that I found really intriguing called Your Looks and Your Inbox. Many of us are interested in online dating and this post give us statistics and research on which picture is the best to put in your profile and male appraisals of female attractiveness. I think it is important what picture you put on your profile and how you represent yourself when you date. I know the graphs and charts can be difficult to read, but don't worry. In every post the graph and chart which is shown is represented clearly. The writing is very easy to understand and very interesting.

Another thing that I really like about this blog is that it provides you with different comments from different people about the topic thats been posted, which helps the reader to learn about other opinions and even other research that has been done. When I found this blog I could not stop reading it, it was so interesting and I loved the variety of comments from other bloggers. I would really recommend you to check out this blog, it really does give great information and a lot of dating and relationship research.

The different tips that are given in the posts are fun to read, the blog is very well organized and user friendly. If you need more of a dating and relationships advice this blog is an excellent source! Happy reading!

A Job Well Done:

Variety of interesting posts

Great research, graphs and statistics

Fluid, professional writing

Great explanation of research, graphs and statistics

Comments of other people which helps us to learn about other people's opinions

Irritating Factors:

Sometimes hard to navigate and find the posts