Aziz Ansari knows how to handle online dating/bullying via TEAM COCO
Not so long before Internet dating sites made themselves popular… Women’re screaming to meet you!
Science fiction, meet online dating.
In this mesmerizing twist on the (over) gamification of life, Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo of Bezaleal Acadamy of Arts imagined what dating of the future would be like.
In their 8-minute video, entitled ‘Sight’, they envision what next-generation contact lenses may hold for us and will leave you pondering what Google’s Project Glass has in store.
Watch the video here.(via)
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LOL, start online dating on Farmville and harvest love!
Nerds. As we all know, the Internet is a great place to pretend to be someone you’re not. […] Anyhow, in many online situations, self-misrepresentation is totally harmless. Like, who cares if your Halo 3 avatar is taller than you are in real life? Or if flickr thinks you’re single when you’re really married? But in online dating, where the whole goal is to eventually meet other people in person, creating a false impression is a whole different deal.
Just came across this 2010 blog-post that still (amazingly) reflects the current scenario. I suppose a lot of people often come to online dating and social networking sites to become tall (Online version: “I’m 6 feet tall.” REALITY: People are two inches shorter in real life.), good looking, non-smoking and well behaved bookworms (may be/may be not to commit cyber crimes) and make us feel like being haunted. Often, we know what to expect. And, sometimes, we ask each other, “Do you know this man?” and/or ”Do you know this girl?”
In case you have suspicions about the ‘algorithms’ used by dating services, they are phony:
via CBS
Scientists worry that dating sites claim to use exclusive “matching algorithms,” which may be nothing more than a guessing game.
“To date, there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works,” Finkel said in a press release. [Finkel is the lead author in a study published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.]
“If dating sites want to claim that their matching algorithm is scientifically valid, they need to adhere to the standards of science, which is something they have uniformly failed to do. In fact, our report concludes that it is unlikely that their algorithms can work, even in principle, given the limitations of the sorts of matching procedures that these sites use.”
Examples of mysterious algorithms include that of eHarmony’s - after a long questionnaire, the site sets you up on dates. You don’t actually get to chose. OkCupid has a formula that matches people based on specific lifestyle questions. Chemistry matches people based on their personality type.
“Developers of matching algorithms have tended to focus on the information that is easy for them to assess, like similarity in personality and attitudes, rather than the information that relationship science has found to be crucial for predicting long-term relationship well-being. As a result, these algorithms are unlikely to be effective,” said Finkel.
Is there really an algorithm for love, though? For as long as dating and relationships have existed, we’ve been trying to figure out a magic formula for love. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t exist.
It does allow people to quickly set up dates, since people have self-selected to be available. That’s all.
(Source: underpaidgenius, via stoweboyd)
