In a terrific 2003 New York Times article by Amy Harmon, a fourth-grade teacher, retold the statistics of her four-months of online dating: messages exchanged with 120 men, phone calls with 20, in-person meetings with 11—and 0 relationships.That's not efficient at producing relationships—but it is efficient at producing anxiety.There are so many ways to meet someone and yet so much malaise. This is the problem Rebecca Yarbrough, the 29-year-old founder of the Offline Society, is trying to solve.“People use technology so much, but there’s fatigue with it.[tags: internet, online dating, ] - The days of waiting for the special someone to come waltzing into your life have long gone. With the availability of free online dating services you could be talking with someone in a matter of minutes.When you date online the amount of people available for you to meet is endless.A relationship expert says a good credit score indicates that someone is responsible and says millennials are interested in authenticity, but also points out that credit reports aren't always reliable.

So rather than go right to "online dating is threatening monogamy," as Dan Slater argues in his article in magazine, maybe we could agree with the less alarmist conclusion that people who engage in rapid serial online dating are probably less likely to make commitments because they won't settle down.

He also found that online dating had been a huge boon to people in “thin dating markets” — think LGBT daters or older women — and hypothesized that marriage and partnership rates of Americans would actually rise as more of these people got online.

Finkel et al’s (very lengthy) review of several top dating sites and the literature on them is basically a wash for all involves: Most sites are pretty bad, they conclude, in the sense that their matching algorithms don’t actually work.

You decide for yourself if Tinder is ruining relationships … In an analysis of data from a nationally representative survey of more than 4,000 U. adults, Rosenfeld concludes that the Internet is beginning to displace old-school meeting places, like schools and churches, as a place for romantic introductions.

“If one believes that the health of society depends on the strength of the local traditional institutions of family, church, primary school, and neighborhood,” he writes, “then one might be reasonably concerned about the partial displacement of those traditional institutions by the Internet.” But aside from that, the news is all good: Rosenfeld found no differences in relationship quality or strength between couples who met online and couples who met off.