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Justin Bieber fans are about to get a lot less employable
And other things we learned from new social network/dating site stereotype.fm: natpo.st/XC28Mx
Downside of online dating: more STDs, some experts say
The growing spread of sexually transmitted disease in Canada may be at least partly the result of the Internet dating boom, and the rapid intimacy that can develop before online couples even meet, some public-health experts say. (Photo: FOTOLIA)
A club for sad liars, looking desperately for love
Most of what I wrote about myself in the Nerve online dating personals was untrue. You can try being meta about it. I don’t usually do this sort of thing. Or: I can’t believe I’m doing this. Hey, guess what: nor can anyone. Online dating is one of those things nobody wants to admit to a natural proclivity for, or being an old hand at. And yet they are very much a form unto themselves, a species of fiction, really, wherein wannabe Romeos dash off lightly fictionalized, Gatsbyesque versions of themselves in a tone halfway between come-hither foxiness and plangent entreaty, as if forever posed in some doorway, blowing smoke rings and delivering unrehearsed zingers, before disappearing into the night to work in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter. (Illustration by Kelsey Heinrichs)
Unplugged: Tired of the Internet, singles are returning to cafés and classes at places like The Good Egg to meet their partners.
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