“Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness on the Internet” is a very intriguing article by Nick Paumgarten in the New Yorker which examines online dating as it was, and as it is now, in the uncanny way that is so classically New Yorker. The next two days we’ll take a look at the article and break it down into...
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(Note: I’m pretty sure they could have done all the research for this study on me and a group of girlfriends while on a pub crawl on a Saturday afternoon. The amount of Facebook updates, Foursquare check-ins, and Tweets we make probably make up a huge percentage of these numbers.) A recent study by app analytics firm Flurry...
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‘Love, Romance, and Facebook: Modern dating in 2011″ is an article by Tobi Walsh at timesunion.com, and the awkward, repetitive title sets the tone for the rest of the piece. This article is by a high schooler. I take everything back. Good job, Tobi! Keep writing! You have a bright future ahead of you! Anyway, her...
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Imagine for a moment… You are visiting your favorite dating site after excitedly receiving an e-mail alert that you have new messages. You open the message, and it sweetly reads, “You have beautiful eyes. I am an art student and couldn’t pass up a chance to draw your beauty. Let me know what you think!” Your...
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A new service by Mark Brooks of Courtland Brooks and Online Personals Watch promises to “take the best academic papers and summarize them in plain English so you can improve your idating site, and help your users make better connections.” Edited by a Mark himself, a romance coach, relationship psychologist, and marketing...
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