In dating sites information, Mark Brooks is an English-born American dating sites and social network writer and consultant. [1] In 2004, Brooks launched Online Personals Watch, a dating sites and personals blog with news, official rankings, and CEO interviews. [2] Since its inception, Brooks has written an average of 750 posts per year. [3] Since 2005, Brooks has been in the news regularly and is a dominant speaker at various dating site industry conventions. [4]

Overview
Brooks completed a BS in engineering management at the University of Hertfordshire in 1990. He then moved to the USA to help start a community aerial photography company in Pennsylvania. In 1998, Brooks moved to California to start Ace-Club.com, an adventure and social connection club serving Silicon Valley, and then help start eturn (now Remoba), an early competitor to Plaxo.

In 1999, Brooks helped develop an early personality profiling dating site called Hypermatch which was sold to EZBoard. In 2003, he worked with Jonathan Abrams at Friendster to seed the Friendster community through media relations, promoters and events. He then joined FriendFinder to assist Andrew Conru and Zhang with media relations and business development. He left FriendFinder to help design and build the personality profiling based diet social network, Diet.com, and then worked as VP for Cupid.com to overhaul the site design and acquire a speed-dating company and expand it into 70 U.S. cities. In 2006, Brooks launched SocialNetworkingWatch.com, a spinoff of the latter for social networking sites.

References
1. Mark Brooks (about) – OnlinePersonalsWatch.com.
2. Online Personals Watch (home) – OnlinePersonalsWatch.com.
3. Brooks, Mark. (2008). “Sell Your iDating Company”, Online Personals Watch, Jul 07.
4. Mark Brooks (in the press) – OnlinePersonalsWatch.com.