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Though dating has never been easier, frustrations with it have never been more vocal and finding love has never seemed more treacherous. When I first moved to London, I was dating online a lot because I didn’t have any friends yep, total loser but it was an honest-to-God excellent way to meet people that you’ve never otherwise had the chance to meet. It cuts through the initial stress and chat-up BS, and it’s simply a lot of young-Mark-Zuckerberg-inspired-Hot-or-Not fun. It was entertaining to talk to so many people who wanted to know where I was from, what I did for a living or if I enjoyed being hogtied to the hood of their Honda Accord. That last guy got a laugh instead of a date, but, you get it, the apps provided both socialisation and entertainment. I’m lucky beyond belief and just minimally scarred from my almost two years on “the apps”. Through the lens provided by my background in economics, I became fascinated with the incentive structures that I could see in the dating arena. It was a market system, with supply and demand dynamics, information asymmetry, and buyers and sellers of sex and commitment. It seemed to me like human nature was laid bare through the wonder of technology.