Julie Spira (Cyber-Dating Expert)

Julie Spira is an American author and online dating expert who calls herself the Cyber-Dating Expert and a digital matchmaker. She grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey, graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in television and radio, and started in radio and satellite networking technology before moving into dating.

Background

An early adopter of the internet, she became a charter member of Love@AOL in 1994 and later began coaching singles and writing their online profiles. She is a certified dating and relationship coach through the Matchmaking Institute and works through her company Cyber-Dating Expert, LLC. Her career took her to Los Angeles, where she sits on the boards of local charities.

Work

Spira writes advice columns and contributes dating and safety tips to platforms including Match, JDate, Plenty of Fish, Zoosk and Bumble. She has run a Mobile Dating BootCamp and appeared as a coach in the 2015 Vice documentary The Mobile Love Industry. Her book The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online (Morgan James, 2009) is a memoir with advice, and she re-released it in 2016.

Media

She has been interviewed on Good Morning America, Today and NPR and by outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Much of her biography is self-reported on her own site.