Hello and welcome to the upgrade, a podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life every week in a very specific way.

I'm Alan Henry, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. Joining me today is, as always, my co-host, Andy Oren. Hello. And LifeHacker

writer, Patrick Allen. How you doing, Patrick? Hello. Good. How are you guys doing? We're good.

I'm good. This week, we're talking about romance because Valentine's Day is

right around the corner. Andy, do you have any plans? My plans for Valentine's Day. I think I'll stay

home and catch up on the young Pope by myself, which is fine. I'm fine. It's fine. Everything's

fine. Patrick, what about you? Do you have any plans for Valentine's Day?

No plans yet, but I feel I'll be doing something.

Just not sure what yet.

You were in a new relationship, so you probably have to come up with something, right?

Yeah, we'll see how it goes.

I am in an old relationship, and I don't have, I have no plans. I mean,

it's our first Valentine's Day in the city. Maybe we should do something, something fun and

romantic in New York. I'm waving my hands like I know what I'm talking about. Alternatively,

we may just stay on the couch at home and watch Netflix.

That sounds pretty good to me, yeah.

So we're willing to bet some of you are looking for love, hopefully in all the right places.

So without further ado, let's get right into the topic.

So we're talking about dating websites and how to really wrangle that first date, how to find love

on the internet. And it's not just for these young teenage kids with their apps, you know,

it's even if you're in your 40s or 50s, you can find someone online. Absolutely. I mean,

if something terrible happens like later in your life, you want to be able to find love again. I mean, I took a college class and, I mean, this was ages ago, but I'm not going to be able to find love again i mean i took a college

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