Relationships expert, author and Bad Dates of Melbourne founder.
I have sold the rights to my upcoming non-fiction book to HarperCollins Australia.
It’s going to be a pretty funny book… and I hope it will help you change your life.
Seriously 🙂
It’s called HOW TO DATE LIKE A DANGEROUS WOMAN.
Let’s go!
Here are some comments from Team BDOM when I let them know… The best followers of all time!
How does one find romance in Melbourne? What are the current issues young people face? How should we deal with it? I recently spoke at Monash University, alongside Dr Emily Van Der Nagel, about Melbourne’s digital intimacy culture and how we can take control of our dating experiences while facing the shifts in human connections. Watch the event here.
Bad Dates of Melbourne has reached 20.9 million people organically in the last year.
“Organic” means there is no budget behind the social media post. This is a good result. What’s also notable is that BDOM does not have a team of people working on it, which is the case for many big social media pages. Woohoo!
This year continues to be a big one for BDOM!
I was on ABC Melbourne speaking with the fabulous Lisa Leong about the declining divorce rate and people’s attitudes to marriage. You can listen to me here – I’m on 48 minutes in!
❤️ Bad Dates of Melbourne reached about 15 million people in 2024.
That’s a good result considering it had a budget of $0 and there’s only one person running it – with of course, the incredible support and storytelling skills of Team BDOM.
The Page started in 2017 and still going strong.
The other highlight of this year was signing my first book deal with Harper Collins. I’m getting closer to finishing the manuscript and it’s coming along exactly as I hoped.
So a good year for social media overall!
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This week I am in ‘From rizz to throning, an ultimate guide to Gen Z’s dating dictionary’ as dating expert and creator of the ‘hugely popular Bad Dates of Melbourne and Bad Dates of Australia’.
Love to hear that!
“Language is powerful – don’t underestimate how validating dating slang can be and how it helps us collectively push for change.” – me
Some good quotes in there – plus I will tell you what ‘rizz’ means.
You can read it here.
I spoke to SBS News about Bad Dates of Melbourne and the scary side of online dating. There’s a new voluntary code that is trying to help – my feelings on it are mixed. It’s ok but these problems are much bigger than dating apps – and there’s nothing wrong with the technology itself. It’s the people and culture behind them that’s the problem. This one’s a podcast but it also has a transcript – check it out here!
Man of Many has got some advice from me on how to have a conversation on Tinder. There are some good tips in here – take a gander!
A major survey has revealed some revealing statistics about cheating, polyamory and dating. I spoke to Body + Soul about the juicy findings. Bad Dates of Melbourne was written up as “hugely popular” in this story, which I loved. Take a look here!
I was on the Well Enough Alone podcast speaking with journalist Jill Stark about modern dating and single life. There’s lots of interesting discussion in this one!
Or wherever you get your podcasts!
I spoke to Body & Soul about Gen Z and how they’re doing a fantastic job at living life authentically. Go Gen Z! You can read the story here.
Alita Brydon 