Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
This is such a monumental change in human relations. I don’t even know whether it’s good or bad it’s just incredible to witness such a revolution play out in front of us.
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Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
This is interesting, if unsurprising. I also met my wife online so am maybe somewhat biased in favor. Before he got cancelled, Aziz Ansari had a (non-comedy) series about modern love where he talked about this trend among other things. I remember he talked about how modern westerners scoff at the idea of Indian arranged marriages, but that even 60 years ago that was more the norm worldwide — spouses met through family primarily and were more often than not based on social strategy than love. And even if marriages weren’t organized by family, the number one factor dictating who you would marry for many centuries was simple geography. Online dating turns both of those things on their head. Personally, I don’t see how anyone can be a person of math or science and not admit that love connections facilitated by algorithms and based on shared interests and commonalities must necessarily be better than ones formed by simple geographic lottery alone 🤷🏻♂️
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
It’s really interesting Q. I think it makes life more interesting to be able to find whoever you want freed of geography but a lot of those traditional marriages also seemed durable and meritorious. We need to check in a few decades at longevity rates and whether people are still finding each other to assess.
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Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
Traditionally marriage durability was a function of religion and/or social pressures. Maybe a better metric to track would be happiness durability.
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