(Online Dating Industry Journal) An interesting article in The Times Online lists online dating as a "perfect example of technological Darwinism." As people are finding less time for socializing due to longer workdays, they are expanding their social reach on the Internet through online dating.
From the article:
"If ever lengthening working days are reducing opportunities for socialising and growing geographical mobility is cutting people off from family and social networks, chance encounters with friends of friends that might one day lead to romance become less likely.
But online dating is more than just a reaction against old trends. It is also an advance in its own right, offering the advantages of speed, anonymity, an enormous pool of “candidates” to choose from and — perhaps most important of all — the chance to turn someone down without having to look him in the eye."
For the full article, click here.
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