Distant daters use Skype to kindle romance

At a pre-Valentine’s speed dating event held last week at venues in Birmingham and London, UK, organisers used Skype video chat to hook up potential matches.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of speed dating, even if we haven’t been on one ourselves, but this version helped bridge a hundred mile gap with the free calling technology.

Each “date” lasted three minutes.

Sue Ostler, a “professional flirt diva” (eh?), suggested that in the future ” the experience of dating via video will be commonplace”.

What do you reckon? Internet dating is now a generally accepted way of finding a mate. What about video dating?