![]() ![]() “Who knows who you’re eliminating?” said Aziz. ’s own research algorithm confirms the surprising discovery that the partner people say they want online often doesn’t match up to the one they’re actually interested in. The person he truthfully described he wanted to find “was a little younger than me, small, with dark hair.” But the woman he’s been dating for the past two years and is now happily living with in Los Angeles is a little older, taller, and blonde. And we get ourselves wrong! When Aziz was writing stand-up about online dating, he experimented with filling out the forms of dummy accounts on several dating sites. We’ve become souls divided, he maintains, between the real self and the cell-phone self. It’s easier because you’re not going to hear the disappointment in their voice.” “It’s easier to send a text to split up with someone than to have a conversation and, you know, deal with the ramifications. ![]() He writes in Modern Romance that technology has turned his generation into “the rudest, flakiest people ever.” “I think our cell phones have given us the tools to be rude,” he explained (though he remains characteristically polite). Aziz, a romantic realist, sees the downside. Forster’s fabled 1910 epigraph, “Only connect,” has been transformed into a frantic Web search not only for relationships or marriage (or sex) but also for perfect love. ![]()
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