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The NY Times calls online dating Losers.com. Well, sure, the headline is really "Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Loser.com," but, hey, thanks NY Times, for confirming our previous worse fears that online dating was for losers. The two big usual suspects were mentioned, Match and Nerve, as well as the more ethnic-specific, JDate and Black Planet. Writer Amy Harmon also mentioned Eharmony which makes its subscribers fill out a long questionnaire, and claims to be able to eliminate 99.7% of the ill-matches (it was founded by a psychologist). Hmm, is Eharmony saying that "Favorite on-screen sex scene" and answering "___ is sexy; ___ is sexier" aren't good for creating a reverse psychological profile?
While the article paints a positive spin on online dating, the pitfalls of lying are outlined, from marital status to salary. One quote that Gothamist was very famliar was "I swear every time they put 5-10 you have to deduct 3 inches."
Gothamist on speed dating and dating a blogger - never in our experience have we come across the profile that says "I'm a blogger" but maybe we're looking the wrong (or the right?) places.
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Was there anything at all previously unknown in this article? Once again, this piece -- plus the NYT's piece last week about PBR -- confirms my view that all cultural coverage in the Grey Lady is about 2 years behind the curve.
I haven't read the article yet -- it's not even 8am here on the West Coast, for chrissakes -- but I agree. The LA Times visited this ground two years ago. I've been with my partner for almost two years now, and we met via planetout. Although we'd both dated online before, this was the first major success for both of us, and also the first where we decided not to lie about how we met. I'd noticed the vast majority of my friends had already chucked getting drunk, picking from an available pool of like-liquored bachelors, and holding sexual interviews as a viable way to find the right guy. The stigma was already gone.
I'm interested to see if they cover what I consider to be the classic paradox of traditional dating vs. online dating: that in traditional dating, the biggest disappointment is finding out his personality and/or intelligence don't live up to his looks, and in online dating, that his looks don't live up to his personality/intelligence.
Jayson Blair aside ... can we just talk about Machiko as Elle, the full time Gigi Granger coverage and now this... NYT is becoming the 'Elaine's' of newspapers..
(hey, Jen... I'm in NYC (area) and the tan is annoying!)
NYT behind the curve...
Well, of course. Ever since the web, traditional news outlets regularly play catch up. The only thing I look to the NYT for is a "more in-depth" examination of issues that have usually already been exposed by a small website somewhere on the web. If anyone here looks to the NYT for exposition of emergent trends/issues, then it's probably 'you' who are behind the curve. ;^)
I seem to recall reading a similar article about online dating finding its way into culture about a year ago in the NYT...
[a brief trip to Google later]. There's a reason for feeling deja vu-ey: Young,">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/fashion/21PERS.html">Young, Single and Dating at Hyperspeed (April 21, 2002). The NYT is not only behind the curve, it's behind its own curve.
I'd like to see who gets to write about Friendster, two years from now, being a pickup scene: Warren St. John or Amy Harmon.
Well, now that the NY TIMES has to fact-check every article more carefully since Jayson B., they might be a little delayed in publication.
I did meet my boyfriend via Match.com, and it's been a blissful 5+ months so far. I work in Manhattan and don't get home to Jersey till well after 7:00 pm; my BF has a visual impairment and he can't drive a car. There was no other way we were going to meet without getting fixed up online.
Well I have tested online dating and I found that most of the women were losers and the men to be Pretty good picks. The men who use online dating are for the most part the nice guys that almost never get the girl simply because they care. So husbands can be found online, that's why serious women allways come off good online.