Meghan was enjoying her new companion. They had great conversations. He was so interesting. They shared a lot of the same opinions about the world. And he was so generous and thoughtful. He picked up pretty rocks for her, because he knew she collected them. He was... This guy seems okay. You’re not sure about him, but he’s nice enough. The conversation was good. If he asked you, you’d probably see him again. But after you go home from your date, you check your phone… And nothing. Tomorrow … still nothing. He doesn’t contact you... It’s so fun to text back and forth with someone new. You feel like you’re really getting to know each other. It’s SO much easier to flirt. You can type things you’d never say in person. You can ask your friends for ideas. You can even text him in your pajamas, no... Imagine you’re playing a board game with this really cute, amazing guy. You can tell he really likes you, too. Eventually, you notice that every time you play this game with him, you end up winning. So you start paying closer attention to how he’s playing… And, sure... You’re excited about your upcoming date with a guy you met online. You really enjoyed chatting with him. He seems to have his life together—great job, cool hobbies, even impeccable grammar! You agreed to do something the weekend after next. He said he’d nail down... Dan Ariely doesn’t like online dating. The term is all wrong, he says. There’s no dating happening online. Instead, he jokes, they should call it “online searching and blurb writing.”[1] Not that Dan has searched for love online himself. He’s happily married with two... 
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