Old-fashioned techniques stand their ground beside new social mediaATLANTA, Nov. 11 /CNW/ -- Despite the rise of online dating and other
social networking sites, new research from voice-to-content expert SpinVox
shows that the bad pick-up line is not only alive and well-it works.
The report has revealed the top five 'worst' pick-up lines in Canada to
be:
1. "Do you have a mirror in your pocket? Because I can see myself in
your pants."2. "You must be leaving the country if you're packing that much ass."
3. "Excuse me if I'm wrong, but is your name Yolanda?"4. "Inheriting 50 million dollars doesn't mean much when you have a weak
heart."5. "Excuse me, but I'm new in town, can I have directions to your place?"Whether you rely on these old favorites or a more original opener, it's
worth starting up a conversation: the research, based on feedback from focus
groups conducted among 1,000 Canadians, showed that for 37 percent of women, a
well-timed chat-up approach will lead to conversation. (Regardless of how well
the night is going, only six percent of the women surveyed said it would lead
to an overnighter.)
Even a successful first night doesn't necessarily lead to a follow-up
date. 13 percent of women would be too embarrassed to answer a call from
someone with whom they'd previously exchanged numbers.
The majority of men (90 percent) and women (87 percent) would be happy to
call someone they'd met on a night out, with only one out of ten people
preferring to communicate via mobile texting.
With 120 million active users, Facebook is another great way to connect
with potential dates online. Even if things don't fare well initially, men
may get a second chance: nearly half of the women surveyed will look up the
men they've met on Facebook. Meanwhile, only 38 percent of men said they look
for the women they've just met on the Internet, which sharply contrasts the 95
percent look-up rate of men in America.
So what's the key to success in picking someone up? Consider the
following tips:
-- It's okay to be funny, but if you aren't sure of someone's sense of
humor, keep it clean!
-- It's okay to be a bit nervous-honesty and humility will win you
brownie points whereas over-compensating will come across as arrogance.
-- Everybody likes flattery! You'll never go wrong if you open with a
friendly compliment.
Christina Domecq, CEO and co-founder of SpinVox says, "The many different
options now available to communicate personal messages really seem to be
making it easier for people to connect but on their own terms. Whether it's
using your mobile phone to post on Facebook while on the go or simply leaving
someone a spoken message delivered as a mobile text or email, SpinVox helps
capture the moment and add that 'personal' touch as the recipient knows it was
a spoken message."
With SpinVox, you can speak your blog posts and social network updates by
simply dialing a number on your mobile phone and leaving a message which will
be automatically converted to text and posted on your chosen site. For users
with several blogs and networks, a new 'Ping through SpinVox' service is
available that simultaneously broadcasts spoken updates to thirty of the most
popular social networking sites.
SpinVox is free to anyone wishing to use the service to update their blog
or social network. Visit http://www.spinvox.com for more. You can also Ping
through SpinVox by signing up at http://ping.fm/Notes to editorsThe research was conducted across 1,000 Canadian residents between the
ages of 18 and 49, using Facebook polls.More key stats include:-- 56 percent of men would carry on a conversation with someone who had
just chatted them up.
-- Nearly seven times more men than women (41 percent vs. 6 percent)
claim they'd spend the night with somebody they've just chatted up.-- 19 percent of women never give their number out.
About SpinVoxSpinVox(R) is the world's largest privately-held speech technology
company, providing the most successful voice to text messaging services which
are used daily by millions of people. SpinVox services are available directly
on http://www.spinvox.com and through leading carriers and service providers
globally.
Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies,
SpinVox has brought together the two most natural forms of communication --
voice and text -- to create the fastest-growing form of messaging:
Voice-to-Content(TM).
Its award-winning service is not only upgrading voicemail -- by
converting voicemail to text for delivery as SMS or email messages -- but is
also empowering people to speak SMS messages or emails to anyone, from any
phone. SpinVox also enables people to speak messages directly to their
favorite web messaging services such as Facebook, Twitter and many other
popular web networks.
As a carrier-class hosted service provider, any network, anywhere in the
world can rapidly implement SpinVox and it is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati
Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain,
Movistar Chile and Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.
At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion
System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech
technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS now serves users
across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German -- with
additional languages, Portuguese and Italian, under development.
For further information: Crisel Ortiz, +1-415-989-9000,
crisel@msrcommunications.com, for SpinVox Web Site: http://www.spinvox.com
