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Welcome to
www.speed-dating.hk and our exciting dating site for speed dating! For
those that know us well, you can continuously find your friends here, and for
those new to our speed dating, then please read on!
Since
2005 we have been bringing you great speed
dating and other dating events.
From organising online matching, our site has grown
to be the leader in Speed Dating in Hong Kong.
Have
fun and meet potential partners in an enjoyable atmosphere!
網上極速約會
極速約會是一種有組織的聯誼或約會模式，目的就是為了鼓勵人們在短時間內與大量的陌生人見面。它最初是猶太人發明的一種方式。「極速婚姻」（SpeedDating）已成為Aish HaTorah的註冊。
起源和發展:
最初的快速約會與1998年末在皮特咖啡館舉行. 之後就有商業服務組織在全美提供相關服務。2000年，極速約會迅速發展，特別是由於在電視劇中的出現讓很多人了解了這種婚戀形式。
研究發現
1 個人在普通社交圈只能夠平均
1 個月認識
1 位單身異性甚至更少，而在
Speed Dating
極速約會 配對的
1 次聚會中大約可以認識
15位希望找到另一半的異性。不同的
Speed Dating 極速約會對參加者有不同要求，例如學歷／年齡／行業／興趣等，繼而令參加者雙方都更容易找到乎合條件的對象。
男女參加者會被安排進行一系列短小的約會，根據活動組織的不同，一般是3到8分鐘。在約會期間，雙方可以詢問互相的情況並簡短交談感興趣的話題。主持人以鳴鐘或者敲擊玻璃杯作為一次約會結束的信號，這時交談者就應當停止當前的談話，並和下一位參與者開始新一輪的交談。在活動最後，組織者會提供一張表格，由參與者寫出自己心儀的交談者，如果兩人都列出了對方的姓名，那麼雙方將得到對方的聯繫方式。但是在活動過程中是嚴格禁止交換聯繫方式的，主要是防止出現當面拒絕這樣的尷尬場面。 這種活動一般需要預約，通常要用信用卡網上支付活動費用。但有時為了平衡性別比例，也會允許中途參加者。 目前有很多這樣的極速約會。一般情況下，一次活動都會為某一個特定年齡段而組織，又是可能男性的年齡段會稍大一些。
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Introduction to Speed Dating
Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking
process or dating system whose purpose is to
encourage people to meet a large number of new people. Its origins are credited
to Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish HaTorah, originally as a way to
help Jewish singles meet and marry. "Speed Dating", as a single word,
is a registered trademark of Aish HaTorah. "Speed
dating", as two separate words, is often used as a generic term for
similar events.
The first speed-dating event
took place at Pete’s Café in Beverly
Hills in late 1998. Soon
afterward, several commercial services began offering secular round-robin
dating events across the United States. By 2000, speed dating had really taken
off, perhaps boosted by its portrayal in shows such as Sex and the City as something that glamorous people did. Supporters
argue that speed dating saves time, as most people quickly decide if they are
romantically compatible, and first impressions are often permanent.
Organization
Men and women are rotated to
meet each other over a series of short "dates", usually lasting from
3 to 8 minutes depending on the organization running the event. At the end of
each interval, the organizer rings a bell or clinks a glass to signal the
participants to move on to the next date. At the end of the event participants
submit to the organizers a list of who they would like to provide their contact information to. If there
is a match, contact information is forwarded to both parties. Contact
information cannot be traded during the initial meeting, in order to reduce
pressure to accept or reject a suitor to his or her face.
These events typically require
advance registration, often an online prepayment by credit card. However, they
may accept a few walk-ins when needed to balance the gender ratio. Some
services make use of waitlists when signing up to strive for exactly the same
number of men and women, while others have a more "party" atmosphere
and only aim for an approximately matching number.
There are many speed dating
events now in the United Kingdom, Canada,
and the United States. Many of these simply
specify an age range for ladies and gentlemen; sometimes a slightly older range
is specified for men. On the other hand, many organizers offer niche
events such as nights for graduates only, gays and lesbians,
older men with younger women and vice versa, book lovers, ethnic
events, and religious affiliation
such as Christian speed dating.
Practice
Speed dating has some obvious
advantages over most other venues for meeting people, such as bars, discotheques,
etc. in that everybody is purportedly there to meet someone, they are grouped
into compatible age ranges, it is time-efficient, and the structured
interaction eliminates the need to introduce oneself. Unlike many bars, a speed
dating event will, by necessity, be quiet enough for people to talk
comfortably.
Participants can come alone
without feeling out of place; alternatively it is something that women who like
to go out in groups can do together.
Because the matching itself
happens after the event, people do not feel pressured to select or reject each
other in person. On the other hand, feedback and gratification
are delayed as participants must wait a day or two for their results to come
in.
The time limit ensures that a participant will not be stuck with a boorish
match for very long, and prevents participants from monopolizing
one another's time. On the other hand, a couple that decides they are
incompatible early on will have to sit together for the duration of the round.
Most speed dating events match
people at random, and participants will meet different "types" that
they might not normally talk to in a club. On the other hand, the random
matching precludes the various cues, such as eye contact, that people use in
bars to preselect each other before chatting them up.
Business speed dating has also
been used in China
as a way for business people to meet each other and to decide if they have
similar business objectives and synergies. Speed dating offers participating
investors and companies an opportunity to have focused private meetings with targeted groups in a compact time frame.
Online speed dating
Several online dating services offer online speed dating, where users meet online
for video, audio or text chats. SpeedDate.com,
which launched in 2007, offers this service. The advantage of online speed
dating is that users can go on dates from home as it can be done from any internet
enabled computer.
Scientific research
There have been several
studies of the round-robin dating systems themselves, as well as studies of interpersonal attraction that are relevant to these events. Other studies found
speed-dating data useful as a way to observe individual choices among random
participants.
First impressions
A 2005 study at the University of Pennsylvania of multiple HurryDate speed dating events found that
most people made their choices within the first three seconds of meeting.
Furthermore, issues such as religion, previous marriages, and smoking habits
were found to play much less of a role than expected.
A 2006 study in Edinburgh, Scotland showed that 45% of the women participants in a
speed-dating event and 22% of the men had come to a decision within the first
30 seconds. It also found that dialogue concerning travel resulted in more
matches than dialogue about films.
Subconscious preferences
Malcolm Gladwell's
book on split-second decision making, Blink,
introduces two professors at Columbia
University who run speed-dating events. Drs. Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman found,
from having the participants fill out questionnaires, that what people said
they wanted in an ideal mate did not match their subconscious
preferences. Leil Lowndes's
book on female - male courtship behavior, Undercover Sex Signals,introduces how a woman makes a split second
decision by choosing potential mates, based on her first impression of them.
Olfaction and the MHC
A 1995 study at the University of Bern showed that women appear to be attracted to the smell of
men who have different MHC profiles from their own, and that oral contraceptives
reversed this effect.
The MHC is a region of the human genome involved with immune function. Because parents with more diverse MHC
profiles would be expected to produce offspring with stronger immune systems, dissimilar MHC may play a role in sexual selection.
A speed "date"
lasting several minutes should be long enough for the MHC hypothesis to come
into play, provided the participants are seated close enough together.
Olfaction and pheromones
The TV newsmagazine 20/20 once sent both a male and a female set of twins to a speed dating event.
One of each set was wearing pheromones, and the ones wearing pheromones
received more matches.
Age and height preference
A 2006 study at the University of Essex and the IZA in Bonn into the relative effects of
preference versus opportunity in mate selection showed, while concluding that
opportunity was more important than preference, that a woman's age is the
single most important factor determining demand by men. Although less important
than it is to men, age is still a highly significant factor determining demand
by women.
The same study found that a
man's height had a significant impact upon his desirability, with a
reduction in height causing a decrease in desirability at the rate of 5% per
inch.
Selectivity
Studies of speed dating events
generally show more selectivity among women than among men. For instance, the Penn
study reported that the average man was chosen by 34% of the women and the
average woman was chosen by 49% of the men. New studies suggest that the
selectivity is based on which gender is seated and which is rotating. This new
study showed that when men were seated and the women rotated, the men were more
selective. http://www.livescience.com/culture/090929-women-dating.html
Spin-offs
The
popularity or charm of speed dating has led to at least one offspring: Speed
Networking. A structured way of running business networking events with the
goal of making meeting potential business contacts easier and more productive.
Some speed dating companies have now started offering free speed dating where
you don't pay unless you meet somebody you like.
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