A few weeks later I noticed that Chris had replaced the photos with those of yet another woman. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions of people are trying to find dates or spouses online every day. How accurate are the ads they find? And just how successful is online dating compared with conventional dating? These and other questions have recently stimulated a small explosion of studies by social scientists. The research is quickly revealing many surprising things about the new world of online dating, and some of the findings could be of great value to the millions who now look to the Internet to find love.
Online dating
About two years ago I arranged to meet
for coffee with a woman I had corresponded
with online. I arrived
early and sat at a table in a conspicuous
spot. After a few minutes,
a woman came to my table,
sat down and said with big
smile, “Hi, I’m Chris!”
But Chris was not the
woman in the online photos.
This wasn’t a question of an
age discrepancy or a new
hairdo. She was a completely
different woman.
Chris was in marketing, you see, and to her it was
simply a good strategy to post photographs
that would draw in as many “customers” as
possible. I never said a word about the photos.
I just enjoyed our conversation and the refreshments.
A few weeks later I noticed that Chris had replaced the photos with those of yet another woman. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions of people are trying to find dates or spouses online every day. How accurate are the ads they find? And just how successful is online dating compared with conventional dating? These and other questions have recently stimulated a small explosion of studies by social scientists. The research is quickly revealing many surprising things about the new world of online dating, and some of the findings could be of great value to the millions who now look to the Internet to find love.
A few weeks later I noticed that Chris had replaced the photos with those of yet another woman. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions of people are trying to find dates or spouses online every day. How accurate are the ads they find? And just how successful is online dating compared with conventional dating? These and other questions have recently stimulated a small explosion of studies by social scientists. The research is quickly revealing many surprising things about the new world of online dating, and some of the findings could be of great value to the millions who now look to the Internet to find love.
