News article on online dating

While men are drawn to names linked to physical traits (e.g., Cutie), the researchers found, women prefer ones that indicate intelligence (e.g., Cultured). Fun2bwith) and shy away from ones with negative connotations (e.g., Bugg).

Honest, likable and succinct profiles written with a touch of humor — particularly those that did not self-aggrandize or use rhetorical flourishes — elicit the best results. He spent Valentine’s weekend in Rome with his sweetheart, whom he met online.

The idea is that if you’re faced with too many options you will find it harder to pick one, that too much choice is demotivating.

We see this in consumer goods — if there are too many flavors of jam at the store, for instance, you might feel that it’s just too complicated to consider the jam aisle, you might end up skipping it all together, you might decide it's not worth settling down with one jam. I don’t think that that theory, even if it’s true for something like jam, applies to dating.

I wondered to myself, is this what online dating has done to us?

Is it creating a new reality in which people actively avoid real-life interactions?