Want to Hook Up, but Lost for Words? This App Will Write Your Craigslist Ad

Craigslist personals haven't been the same since the spambots and professional escorts moved in, but now there's Collective Love, a service that can help us remember the site's glorious, incomprehensibly written past.

Once users enter their location info, Collective Love uses a Markov chain algorithm to generate text from local personal ads seeking casual sex. More often than not, this results in total gibberish, which isn't out of character for the kind of desperation one often saw on the Craigslist of yore.

Collective Love challenges users to "see if you can find your own reflection in this carnival of refracted flirtation." So I gave it a shot, and this is what came out:

I am looking times DD's. Im a man who is searching for a freaky bbw.

And real and interest favorite curiosities of a your private parts as well endowed black male, looking I am blonde, hazel eyes Respect your hard nipples. Pictures a woman is real.

I'm a good looking look: No STRINGS Attached.

Race let Me know what happens let his fifties looking for a year old white, adult fun live in the subject mind and d free; or if you play safe adult fun.

I want and like and play for mature, Wm looking for a man subject line so if so You Must have body, is in the side and Emails or public somewhere and Like to take care of me know if you prefer: you like in decent good time with.

Lastly don't let you see an older Women. 

Hm. Well, it's still better than the terrible maudlin poetry on Missed Connections today.

Try it out for yourself on the Collective Love website.


    



‘Christians Make Better Lovers,’ Claims Ad Campaign

Christian singles in the U.K. seeking like-minded partners to share romantic dinners of fishes, loaves and vino on Saturday nights might want to check out these cheeky posters launching today in London's Underground that use headlines like "Christians make better lovers" and "Another dating website? Thank God!"

The work, by ad agency Noah for Christian Connection, contends that, for the faithful, " 'Love one another' is written into their code. So if you are a single Christian person, why not give our award-winning dating site a try?"

Agency creative director Chas Bayfield, who designed the retro ads with artist Alex Fawkes, tells Co.Create that he strove to take the message "away from cloying sentimentality and into the mainstream through wit and [by] tapping into popular culture, with a campaign that is contemporary and relevant—something many church organizations aren't always known for."

Indeed, the campaign provides a clever counterpoint to both the squeaky-clean Stepford-esque Christian Mingle approach and the sinfully annoying secular oeuvre of creepy smart-ass Neil Clark Warren.

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Advertising: Finding Ms. (or Mr.) Right at the Board Game Table

A dating Web site is teaming up with board game companies to sponsor game nights where singles can meet and get to know each other.

    

Plentyoffish.com is Everyone’s Favorite Internet Dating Site

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Most singles who browse the web are not only after information. Some even go as far as looking for love as well. And when one asks which site is best, check out Plentyoffish.com. It is the top ranked and favorite site that most online dating addicts are into these days.

Plentyoffish.com is now the official #1 online dating site in both the USA and the UK according to Hitwise and is quickly gaining the reputation for being the site where people meet their true love. At least that’s the case in San Diego, California.

“The notion that people have to pay a dating site big money to meet somebody is outdated.” Says Frind, “the truth of the matter is that POF.com offers people the chance to meet and interact with over ten million singles without having to add more to their credit card debt. When our members meet someone on the site, they still have some money for the actual date. That can be a pretty big challenge in this economy.”

(Source) Press