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China's New Bachelor Class

• jacques_chester 14y ago
  "[Online dating] has greatly expanded the pool for people to choose from without ever having to spend the time to meet the person," he wrote to Tea Leaf Nation via email. "The development of mobile apps in conjunction with the Internet has allowed people to meet each other anywhere at any time. Mobile dating has effectively merged online and offline dating elements to give people more opportunities to meet-- and the odds of finding someone is then much higher. Online dating doesn't really help the assortative mating problem; it actually makes it more acute by reducing the usual geographical / random walk barriers to finding potential partners.