Graph of the Day: How Couples Meet, 1940-2020
“We are in uncharted territory” when it comes to Tinder et al., says Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. “There have been two major transitions” in heterosexual mating “in the last four million years,” he says. “The first was around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, i... See more
Nancy Jo Sales • Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse
The biggest change in dating between 2004 and 2014 was that one-third of all marriages in America began with online relationships, compared to a fraction of that in the decade before.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
as with everything, the internet is unbundling and then re-bundling. We unbundled songs from CDs and rebundled on playlists. We unbundled articles from newspapers and rebundled them on social feeds. And now like it or not we’re doing that to core societal institutions like dating and marriage. We basically just unbundled all pair mating relationshi... See more
Balaji S. Srinivasan • If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan
2. Focus on having a good time. The “conversion” shouldn’t be a match, it should be having a fun night out.