On the Internet, Love Really Is Blind (Published 2001)
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On the Internet, Love Really Is Blind (Published 2001)
Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more
One big problem with online dating is that people lie too much about things like height, weight, how much hair they have, and other qualities. Photos could be posted from twenty years ago when someone was thirty pounds lighter or had a full head of hair.
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But that’s online dating, I’ve always thought: random and chaotic and terrible and weird and then — with time or patience — transformative.