Written by: [emailprotected] on August 29, 2011.

Successful website will allow Rebels to meet new people

A successful college dating website opened up registration to 350 schools nationwide, including UNLV, on Aug. 17.

While free to use, datemyschool.com is open only to students and alumni with .edu email addresses, making it unique from other dating websites. It offers privacy features that are unlike other websites and allows users to customize who is allowed to discover them. It also blocks users from Google searches.

The website was launched by Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer, two graduate students from Columbia University, in November 2010.

Inspiration to create the site came when women from the medical school complained to them about having trouble meeting men from the business school. The website was initially open only to a few schools in New York and other northeast areas, but the level of success prompted them to expand.

[Datemyschool.com is] nothing compared to other social networks because its only about new people, Alexa said in regard to the idea that the service is following the same model as Facebook.

Balazs and Meyer said that their network is the reverse of a typical social network because users meet people they may not know, but can trust.

The dating website is set to expand to more schools in the future, but Alexa maintains it will never affect a users experience.

You can make it as exclusive as you want for yourself, he said.

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