Many dating and lifestyle consultants are divorced women who want to provide the kind of guidance they found lacking when they were starting over.
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When Tinder became available to all smartphone users in 2013, it ushered in a new era in the history of romance.
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Are you ready for "Dating Sunday"? This Sunday, Jan. 6, has been named "Dating Sunday," or the busiest dating day of the year on dating apps and sites due to the spike in people signing in that day to find love.
Read moreHinge Is Hiring An Anti-Retention Specialist To Get Users Off The App & Dating IRL →
Typically, you hear about companies trying to keep their customers. They're trying to protect themselves against their competition, get the customers hooked, and keep having the same loyal following for life. It's all about retention — or at least, it usually is. But now Hinge, the relationship app, is hiring an Anti-Retention Specialist. That's right, an anti-retention specialist — in other words, they're looking for someone to get users off of their dating app.
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Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. I flirt with every woman in his queue for 10 minutes, sending their photos and locations to a central database of potential “Opportunities.” For every phone number I get, I make $1.75. I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants).
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Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
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In the world of work, recruiters repeatedly say that incorrect spelling, grammar, and formatting are the fastest way to get your application ignored. But for online dating? Yes, says new research from dating company OKCupid: Sticklers for punctuation and the correct use of grammar are more likely to find love online.
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One day, as I swiped my way through Tinder, a pithy line on someone’s profile gave me pause: “If I was looking for a relationship, I would be on OkCupid.” Every dating app has its own reputation: eHarmony for the older generation, Raya for celebrities, Bumble for women wanting to make the first move. For Tinder, now nearing release in 200 countries worldwide, “hookup app” persists as the unshakable reputation. But Jessica Carbino would like to add a bit of nuance to that perception.
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As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.
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In mid-August, couples and lonely hearts packed a Brooklyn basement to hear scientists make sense of something the crowd could not: love. It was the 11th meeting of the Empiricist League, a kind of ad-hoc, small-scale TED Talks for scientists and the New Yorkers who adore them. In the back corner of the room, Christian Rudder sat by himself at the bar, nursing Stephen King’s “It.”
Read moreHow A Math Genius Hacked OkCupid To Find Love →
Chris McKinlay was folded into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA’s math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morning, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out of the supercomputer in Colorado that he was using for his PhD dissertation. (The subject: large-scale data processing and parallel numerical methods.) While the computer chugged, he clicked open a second window to check his OkCupid inbox.
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Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan of data would do: she started making a spreadsheet. Hear the story of how she went on to hack her online dating life -- with frustrating, funny and life-changing results.
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