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Girl to Spend Valentine's Day Doing Speed-Dating Marathon

by Jarrett Martineau | February 12, 2008 at 06:27 pm

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This sounds like the least fun way to spend Valentine's day in the entire history of every possible unromantic way to spend a holiday ever invented.

Dating all day? In 3 minute intervals? For 24 hours?

I admire Ms Salcido for her tenacity and endurance, but we'll have to see what she says about it after the fact.

Francesca Salcido, a 26-year-old student at San Jose State, plans to do a 24-hour dating marathon on SpeedDate.com. The online video dating service sets users up on as many three-minute first dates as they can stomach, slamming another nail in the coffin of the good old-fashioned in-person blind date. But, like, is anyone going to miss it?

“I love Valentine’s Day and what better way to celebrate than to be dating all day,” Salcido said in a news release. “And who knows? Maybe I’ll find that special someone so next year I can celebrate in a more traditional way.”

The site's co-founder thinks Salcido can rack up as many as 300 dates in one 24-hour period (her current record is 100).