By: Lindsey Dunn

Although online dating, at times, gets mixed opinions, there is significant evidence that these sites and applications do yield success. Online Dating Statistics: Dating Stats from 2017, an article from Zoosk.com, gives a few facts that can help stay optimistic when thinking about trying online dating. These include…

• 19% of brides met spouses online
• Couples that meet online often get married quickly
• Online marriages are more likely to survive the first year (Matthews, 2017)

For some proof that the algorithms used in these dating sites and applications really do work, below are a few success stories from real people.

By: Lindsey Dunn

People often have a variety of preferences on the types of people met through online dating, but does allowing racial preferences reinforce divisions and biases in society?

Online dating Web sites and dating apps allow users to filter preferences by race and use specific algorithms that are reinforcing racial divisions among those choosing to use these platforms. Sexual racism, because of this, has gained the modern definition of “racial prejudice that is disguised as “just a preference” on dating apps and in real-life social settings” (Cunningham, 2018, para. 7).