Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.