Web Site Watch: www.dearcupid.org
Published Jul 20, 2007
Dearcupid is an online agony aunt specialising in questions about personal relationships but with some interesting differences. Here you don't just get one answer and one point of view for your question, you can get a whole range of answers from a great many people all giving you their solution.
Questions are posted as they arrive and people are then invited to offer answers or solutions with the answers posted separately. In some cases the person posing the original question replies to the answers and this is posted in the 'Followups' section.
The various 'agony aunts' themselves are then rated by users and their 'scores' displayed so that it possible to see who the users rated as a person giving the most useful answers. If you wish, aunts that you like can also be added as favourites. Of course, to ask or answer questions you need to be a member first.
A range a questions as diverse as there are people
In use, there is a range a questions as diverse as there are people writing in and just about all questions that it is possible to ask seem to be asked at one time or another. You can navigate via the top menu to look at the most active topics being discussed, the most viewed questions and also find questions still requiring an answer, as well as go to the followups section.
There is a useful selection of forums that allow you to select a category and ask a question or reply to one and this seemed to be quite popular on the days when I looked.
It is very much like the 'Agony Aunt' columns found in Woman's Magazines but transfered online and with some changes that the Internet allows it to make which result in a more comprehensive service. Not least of these is the ability to look back at an archive of previous questions.
Relationship problems are ones that confront us all at one time or another and it is often interesting to look through what has been asked. However, if you have a problem, it can often seem insurmountable and for those people this site provides a service which is both extremely quick and very comprehensive since you get a variety of suggestions on how you should go about solving it.
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