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Re:The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love by thanatropism on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:34PM (#18711603)
Eh. There's a lot to be said about actually meeting people. When I went out I wasn't looking for a perfect match, I was looking for fun. I eventually married because I kept having fun with the one person. We're polar opposites in personality and to some limited extent in values, but it just works well.

There's also a lot about attraction and compatibility that's not only nonverbal but inarticulable. "Chemistry", goes the analogy. The club environment is stacked in favor of the attractive, but chemistry usually wins the day.

Re:The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love by BadassFractal on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:54PM (#18711734)
Definitely, agreed. That's why the online phase of dating IMO should last as little as possible: you want to get to that in-person stage to validate the chemistry, which is one of the biggest drop-offs in the funnel.
Re:The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love by thanatropism on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:59AM (#18716514)
Stop using marketing jargon to describe your love+sex life, you'll start soon believing it.