Internet Dating Unplugged


	Internet Dating Unplugged

Tri-City Psychology

6-27-2009 12:16 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3cbf31ae-a1f7-4a30-b5e3-038e5771298a/684CE87D-F674-4B9B-9C73-A3C834CADD65/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating">Internet dating used to be a flag of distress, the bastard love child of Miss 
Lonelyhearts and the worldwide web.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating">Today, internet dating sites are bulging and seeping into our lives - in 
Starbucks and suburban streets there are internet daters everywhere, eyes dull 
from cyberspace, looking for something. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating">Traditional dating - I meet, I smell, I smile or I scowl - seems to be ebbing 
away under its twinkling assault. Fifteen million people in Britain are single, 
and almost five million are shopping for love online. Internet dating has been 
sold as the great solution to 21st-century loneliness; in a world of infinite 
possibility, you can theoretically meet anyone. But is it really? How is it 
changing our <A 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/relationships">relationships</A>? </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating">Clyde Baldo, a psychologist who works with disillusioned internet daters at his 
practice in New York, paints me a picture of the other side of the online 
experience.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/internet-dating">in truth, it is a subconscious playground in which to play out one's deepest 
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