Emerging Technology — First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

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Not just e-commerce that's changing the world.  Social networks are proliferating and expanding, and it is affecting how people meet. An obvious way to test this is through investigating online dating, for which there is ample data. Online dating sites are obviously targeted at people meeting. This has implications for many other social media venues as well. More evidence that the Internet is changing everything. Distance is shrinking, not only in terms of separation in space but also in terms of separation of networks. And interfaces are proliferating. This article examines some of the effects observed. MIT Technological Review First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of SocietyEmerging Technology from the arXiv

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Internet, social media, social networking, society, technological innovation

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