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Love At First Byte: An Economic Analysis Of The Internet Dating Apocalypse, Hamsa Srikanth
Love At First Byte: An Economic Analysis Of The Internet Dating Apocalypse, Hamsa Srikanth
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We’re often warned that the internet will hasten the dating apocalypse. The internet (it is posited) is depriving us of the elusive in-person magic, and modern courtship is now little more than love at first byte.
There remains uncertainty, however, about what the independent impact of the internet on the dating market has been. Similar to the internet, the telephone also changed the way we communicate, but its effect on the dating market was mostly complementary to the 'traditional' ways of meeting – i.e. calling your school crush at home. So the question remains: Is the effect of the …