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Emily Witt · Diary: Online Dating · LRB 25 October 2012

This is a good account of one woman’s experience with online dating, but I think what she says about the reasons behind it and what it can do to a person should resonate with most people who have tried it.

“Like most people I had started internet dating out of loneliness. I soon discovered, as most do, that it can only speed up the rate and increase the number of encounters with other single people, where each encounter is still a chance encounter. Internet dating destroyed my sense of myself as someone I both know and understand and can also put into words. It had a similarly harmful effect on my sense that other people can accurately know and describe themselves. It left me irritated with the whole field of psychology.”
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