Online dating turns us all into raving douchebags

Is online dating actually the worst thing that's ever happened to modern-day relationships? That's the point Dan Slater makes in The Atlantic, saying that the ready availability of new potential mates makes leaving an existing, flawed relationship that much easier. It's "plenty of fish in the sea" times the infinity of the Internet. "As we become more secure and confident in our ability to find someone else, usually someone better, monogamy and the old thinking about commitment will be challenged very harshly," says one online dating exec. Still, a minority contend that a million nobodies aren't worth that one special somebody. [Source]

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