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

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.

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

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

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.