The Science of Online Dating
"Sadly, browsing dating sites is the only thing I find more self-consciously lonely and sad than masturbation. Ten years ago, large numbers of people were internet dating, but they didn’t talk about it. Shoplifting was more publicly acceptable. Now, it is not only culturally acceptable, it’s the norm. One in five people meet online, and one study reckons online dating has finally taken over porn in terms of value, which, to me, is a between-two-evils scenario."
It seems as though those who are single have been looking for love all wrong. Gonzaga claims that one must look for love statistically. Claiming that eHarmony uses science focusing on 25 dimensions of compatibility to match their clients and the fact that they claim responsibility for 2% of all marriages in America is a bit hard to believe for me
Many claim that dating services/sites simply use "algorithms" to match up compatible clients. If these match-ups have been and are so successful, does that mean that in this day and age, we have come to crack down the logic of love? Is this going to lead to finding love just like we go shopping for the perfect top?
What's going to happen to the old-fashioned way of fate and finding our significant others?
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