A woman named "Emily" recently wrote in to a column for The San Francisco Chronicle. Readers of the paper were asked to write in about their salaries. Emily is a female pilot for a major international cargo airline and she earns about 240,000 dollars a year.

She wrote about how she feels about disclosing her salary. "I'm quite comfortable discussing my salary with my friends who are in the airlines." The pilot said that she starts having problems when in it comes to dating.

Emily has been fling since the 70's and is 54 years old. She says, "My very close friends know what I make and I'm OK with that. What does not work is letting a guy I'm dating know what I make. He'll usually feel overshadowed, or intimidated, or otherwise not be cool with it, and that's often the last I see of him. For the same reason, I don't usually reveal that I'm a pilot - I usually say that I'm in flight operations and let it go at that."

She went on to say, "Most guys just can't handle being with a woman who's making it in a traditionally male industry (and probably out-earning them)."

[Via: SFGate]

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A homeless man has conned more than $100,000 from about 13 women posing as a rich man on Internet dating sites.

He did his dirty work on a site called Millionaire Match using a laptop. This is a specially designed website catering to people who would like, "a premium service that caters to professionals with busy lifestyles, including those very successful ones."

This site has claimed that it verifies each and every member of the site doing background checks to see if they are truly celebrities or millionaires.

Mr. Krueger, from Philadelphia posed as Grammy-award-winner with millions, his username was "imreadyru2007."

He managed to romance about 13 women, he even had to the guts to tell whoppers like that he was producing Michael Jackson's new record in Scotland, according to ABC local news reports.

Furthermore, he had the women invest in his non-existent record company, fooling them into giving him thousands and even showed one woman falsified stock reports convincing her that his business was legitimate and successful.

Mr. Krueger was dealing with a gambling addiction; he had already spent the money when he was arrested in Atlantic City.

[Via: news.com.au]

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Gizela Rushansky had been married for 30 years and now she is learning to be single again. Gizela was born in Russia and has had to learn several new languages as she has live in quite a few different countries.

With a laugh she says, "To learn to be single again is harder than learning a new language."

She tried to date online but she did not have any luck. She says, "You have to be very dedicated to try online dating." "You have to be more aggressive and have more free time for it," she continued.

But then some single friends of hers introduced her to a new idea, where it was possible to meet people and interact with them and to do it while doing what she loves best - dancing.

Dick Syatt decided to try and organize an event that would be based around the old-fashioned way of meeting people. He is now hosting a singles dance every Thursday night in at a local nightclub. On the first night about 450 single women and men showed up to the event. Tunes from the 1950's, 60's, 70's, and 80's were played and everyone was up on their feet dancing.

Rushansky was most interested in the dancing, "It's a great, great opportunity to meet somebody while you are doing something you love and for me I love to dance."

[Via: EnterpriseNews.com]

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Amber Blackburn recently single is quite surprised by the fact that Facebook helped her get back into the world of dating. She says, "My fiancé of two years just left me so I switched my relationship status to single."

On Facebook, a little broken heart pops up to show all your friends and acquaintances that you are back on the singles market, otherwise called declaring your relationship status. Basically if anyone looks at your profile knows whether you need a date Friday night.

"It's kind of silly but if you're trying to connect with somebody, you at least know if they're taken or not."

Some feel that this is just a little too public, because millions of people online can see if you are dating, engaged, in a complicated situation or even single. This for some people is a bit too much — while others feel that if you are in truly in love, why not spread the news?

Blackburn doesn't really see the negative side of proclaiming your status on Facebook, "I mean if you are talking to someone in a bar you'd tell them I'm taken or single. So why not do it on Facebook?"

What's more Amber is feeling the positive consequences, "It's this kid from high school and we used to hang out a lot. And he saw I was single and he facebooked me. I'm excited!"

[Via: IllinoisHomepage.net]

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An Australian university researcher, Matthew Bambling from the Queensland University of Technology, has performed a study which shows that relationships started online do not seem to last very long as the people involved already have emotional bonds made before actually meeting face-to-face and usually choose an unsuitable partner. It seems women were especially susceptible to this issues because they tend to be attracted by witty comments and clever emails.

People tend to be less inhibited when communicating online (no direct in-person contact) so they let their guard down a bit too much and sometimes much more easily take things for what they are not. Getting addicted to a rush of online replies, he says, can be addictive, but it's a much better practice to meet in person at an early stage in the virtual dating process. This way any hidden "features" in your potential partner are quickly revealed so you have a much better picture about whether they are the ones you'd like to be with. Building up a fantasy image about someone you've been communicating with online is the worst thing you can do in terms of having a successful relationship later on. Maybe this statement made by Bambling says it best:

"You can never assume things are the way they seem online."

So, there you go. If you're into online dating, these words of advice should be something to pay attention to.

[Via: Reuters]

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