>So in most of the 1980s and into the 1990s, I couldn't really effectively answer the "how did you meet" question because that wasn't yet a thing yet. ("On the

>So in most of the 1980s and into the 1990s, I couldn't really effectively answer the "how did you meet" question because that wasn't yet a thing yet. ("On the computer" wasn't really satisfactory before people had a notion of "online".) And when it was more technically explainable, it was sort of seedy because there was so little that was local or social about it. That's really interesting. At one point I interned at PARC, and we were looking at making some sort of privacy protecting online dating service. (E.g. your data is encrypted, only decryped when two people match) But after the initial set of interviews I did, I found most people were more concerned with trust - is the information on this profile accurate? They couldn't care less if people are using online dating. Which surprised some of my colleagues. Section 3.3 of our paper details this if anyone is interested in more detail: http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~ethicj/USEC13/submissions/usec13_submission_05.pdf http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~ethicj/USEC13/submissions/usec1...)