Age, Sex, Location - Longreads
Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.
My Tinder Decade
How did a dating app become my longest running relationship?
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How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand
Over the past six years, Wolfe Herd has built one of the most successful women-led social platforms in the world
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Pilgrim at Tinder Creek | The Point Magazine
In 2013 I found myself simultaneously single and on the academic job market for the first time.
Mr. (Swipe) Right?
Ousted Tinder founder Sean Rad, one of tech's most divisive figures, is back in charge.
Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse
As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.
Love in the Time of No Time (Published 2003)
Jennifer Egan article on explosion in world of Internet dating; in first half of 2003, Americans spent $214.3 million on personals and dating sites, with 40 million visiting at least one dating site in a month; some sites use complex algorithms to match people and others are simple listing services; first generation to come of age on Internet are now young adults and using Web to find everything they need, but fair number of people continue to feel stigma about online dating; key to sytem is personal profile, always available in queue of romantic prospects, and constantly being tweaked with newer, more flattering data and photos; search can lead to online flirting and perhaps in-person contact, where couple may or may not have chemistry, sometimes resulting in polite e-mail rejecting further dates; some sites exist simply for those who desire to meet for casual sexual encounters; people disillusioned with online dating say its promise of no-muss relationship attracts people with intimacy and commitment problems; issues of jealousy come up around people who continue to post profiles while they are dating; one couple's experience detailed; photos (L)
How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment
The Love Techs: The Cambridge Math Geeks Behind OkCupid
The former math geeks behind Cambridge's OkCupid think they have the formula for finally taking all the sketchiness out of online dating.
Looking for Love on the Internet
From 2011: The scramble of online dating, from its beginnings to its current incarnation.
A Million First Dates
How online romance is threatening monogamy
How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
Mathematician Chris McKinlay hacked OKCupid to find the woman of his dreams.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Spreadsheet
In mid-August, couples and lonely hearts packed a Brooklyn basement to hear scientists make sense of something the crowd could not: love. It was the 11th meetin…