Love: Rebooted
A 21st century (healthy, robust, and OFF LINE) romance has become an increasingly difficult feat of balance and skill accomplished only by the most adept. Now, I’m an old-fashioned lass. Doesn’t take much more than a few adventurous meals and whispered punchlines stolen from The Big Lebowski to get my heart a’flutter, but even I turned to the teeming cesspool of online dating when I first moved to New York. I (without guidance) found almost immediate success, and have hence quelled my misgivings about meeting a mate in cyberspace, but finding (and keeping) love in the new millennium has now gone just a few steps further.
From crowdsourcing your lovers’ spats to tasking the inhabitants of a metropolis to help you find your dream companion, apparently relying on luck in the meatspace just isn’t enough to navigate the tricky waters of love. What’s more, young Japanese women are turning to the web to quell their loneliness via a new dating simulation/ social network called WebKare (or WebBoyfriend) to communicate with one of four anime digital crushes to win his heart through gameplay.
Now, I’m all for gushy moments of overzealous, cheesy romance, but tracking your process of proposing to an unwitting fiancee is, as the great Walter Sobchek would say, over the line. Right, dude?
Tags: crowdsourcing
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