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If you're single and looking for love this Valentine's Day, then chances are you're on some dating apps. Over the past

two decades, apps and websites have replaced friends, family members, bars, and churches as the most

common ways for people to meet a partner. One study from Stanford University founded in 2022,

55% of all new couples met online.

That's up from just under 40% in 2017

and only 22% in 2009.

Meanwhile, a 2023 Pew Research Center poll

found that three in 10 US adults of all ages have spent some time on dating

websites or apps. So how has the shift to online dating change the way that people meet

and form relationships? How might the algorithms that power dating apps and filter our potential

partners affect who we end up with. Do those

algorithms do a good job? And what happens to relationships that start online? Are they

more or less likely to work out? If you're on dating apps right now, what can you do to

increase your chances of success? What are the biggest mistakes that online daters make?

And finally, how might developing technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality change dating in the future?

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