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LoginIn the s, long before there was Match. When it made its debut in , the point of Operation Match was to combine "the irrationality of two particular social evils: blind dates and mixers. It worked like this: You sent in three dollars, filled out a questionnaire, mailed it in, and then potential matches were chosen for you through a computer algorithm. After filling out a lengthy multiple-choice questionnaire, I snail-mailed it with three dollars in exchange for the names and telephone numbers of three computer matches. I impatiently waited a month before the names of the men of my dreams arrived in the mail. I couldn't wait another minute, so I immediately phoned each one and set up times to meet. My first match was a better-than-average-looking Columbia University law student, and a few years older than me. We met at the women-only Barbizon Hotel where I was living.
In recent years, the online dating scene has drastically transformed. The online dating industry has significantly expanded its horizontal reach. The industry has figured out how to captivate and appeal online dating to nearly every type of audience. Market trends show the industry will continue to expand over in the years to come. The online dating marketplace seems quite attractive to investors.
Dating apps are extremely broken, and yet they're almost all owned by a single company: Match Group. I have a suspicion that these apps are left intentionally broken to keep users fruitlessly searching and boost engagement metrics.
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6/28/2024
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