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Love in the Time of Algorithms: How Online Dating Shapes Our Relationships QUOTES

1 " In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry survey titled “How Has Internet Dating Changed Society?” The survey responses, from 39 executives, produced the following conclusions:

“Internet dating has made people more disposable.”

“Internet dating may be partly responsible for a rise in the divorce rates.”

“Low quality, unhappy and unsatisfying marriages are being destroyed as people drift to Internet dating sites.”

“The market is hugely more efficient … People expect to—and this will be increasingly the case over time—access people anywhere, anytime, based on complex search requests … Such a feeling of access affects our pursuit of love … the whole world (versus, say, the city we live in) will, increasingly, feel like the market for our partner(s). Our pickiness will probably increase.”

“Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”

From "A Million First Dates
How online romance is threatening monogamy" in January/February 2013 "

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2 " The future,” says Dan Winchester, “will see better relationships but more divorce. The older you get as a man, the more experienced you get. You know what to do with women, how to treat them and talk to them. I often wonder whether matching you up with great people is getting so efficient, and the process so enjoyable, that marriage will become obsolete. "

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3 " Second-order information, writes communications professor Ilana Gershon, is the meaning of a message beyond its explicit terms, “the information that can guide you into understanding how particular words and statements should be interpreted.” Linguistic anthropologists refer to this as metapragmatics. "

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