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Amy Webb an award winning journalist figured out a way to break out from the superficial and competitive world of online dating. And of course, taught us how to breech this system. Online dating is more simple than it sounds, basically the system(website) uses logarithms to compare and match people up by there interests, religion, hobbies, occupation, etc, yet Webb realized that this system isn’t going to make feelings and or chemistry happen between two people. That's when Webb realized that she needed to do it her way. First, by asking her own questions on what she was looking for in a mate and from there prioritized this specific and incredibly long list into tiers from what mattered most to least. She then built a scoring system to figure out who would be the most compatible with her. This was well thought out and something I think no one would ever think to do for something so tedious and demanding for online dating. But, the results were phenomenal and within a year she met her one true love. This TedTalk got me thinking of how superficial our society can be without any physical interactions. Also, her use of optimistic words like fun, love, family and smart and how it makes a person more attractive was a technique I never even thought about. I liked how Webb used qualitative and quantitative data to collect someones humor, voice, tone, communication, their average length of profile, and even the time between each message sent. In the end Webb pointed out that “there is an algorithm for love, not the one being presented with online, in fact its something you write yourself....figure out your own framework and never be too
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