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Click and Tell- A little dry spell
An interesting story about online dating. I feel better now that other people go thru dry spells. What attracts you to someone's profile? Please tell me! An interesting story about online dating. I feel better now that other people go thru dry spells. What attracts you to someone'... more
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eHarmony’s unholy spin
Newsweek’s Lisa Miller recently wrote on a gay couple’s lawsuit against dating site eHarmony, which prohibits same-sex couples.
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The science of online dating and compatibility testing
eHarmony works! maybe!
"Online matchmaking has become a boom industry as rival scientists test their algorithms for finding love.
The leading yenta is eHarmony, which pioneered the don’t-try-this-yourself approach eight years ago by refusing to let its online customers browse for their own dates. It requires them to answer a 258-question personality test and then picks potential partners. The company estimates, based on a national Harris survey it commissioned, that its matchmaking was responsible for about 2 percent of the marriages in America last year, nearly 120 weddings a day.
Another company, Perfectmatch.com, is using an algorithm designed by Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington at Seattle. Match.com, which became the largest online dating service by letting people find their own partners, set up a new matchmaking service, Chemistry.com, using an algorithm created by Helen E. Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers who has studied the neural chemistry of people in love."
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Online Dating for Rejects
The dating Web site eHarmony has a heteros-only policy, and lately it's been catching a lot of flak for that. A gay California woman filed a lawsuit last month accusing eHarmony of discrimination. Adding fuel to the fire: eHarmony's founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, is an evangelical Christian, and his background includes close ties to the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. The dating Web site eHarmony has a heteros-only policy, and lately it's been catching a lot of flak for that. A gay California wo... more
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The incredibly true Facebook parody
A video of Facebook's role in relationships. Admit it, you'll find yourself smiling and nodding in agreement!
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