Heather Havrilesky, from Salon, writes about the changing world of online dating.
The golden age of online dating is upon us. [..] When I asked a friend, who met her last boyfriend online, how many of her single friends had used or are currently using online dating services, she replied, "Pretty much all of them."
It's a far cry from the spring of 1996, when I attended a party for Match.com that was populated primarily by computer programmers who looked like they hadn't left the server room of their start-up offices in several months, their only contact with other humans limited to those moments when they braved the weak San Francisco sunlight to fetch a banana moon pie from the company's vending machine.
So how did everything change so quickly, and why have people begun peddling themselves so shamelessly online?
Discover it by reading this funny and somewhat provocative article.
Source: Heather Havrilesky, Salon.com, May 15, 2002
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