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Internet dating article at Nature

This article at nature.com, Internet dating analysed: Study of online relations may reveal winning tactics, suggests that it might contain a lot of vaulable information for people using online dating services.

Unfortunately, after reading it, it seems to say nothing at all.

In normal friendships and courting, for example, people tend to gravitate towards their own type; like movie stars, popular folk hang out with other well-liked friends or lovers.

On pussokram, however, well-connected people are less selective, says Holme. This might be because people feel freer to go for different kinds of romantic partners under the cloak of anonymity, he suggests.

I get nothing out of that statement at all, unless it's saying that online, people who would never even have the opportunity to meet in real life because they come from very different social circles, can still get together.

posted May 08, 2004