COURTESY DIANNA HANK
YOU HAD
ME @ LOL
While traditional online dating
sites offer the internet equivalent
of a speed dating session, social
networking sites are the cocktail
parties of the web: people, in the
course of their meticulous selfrepresentation online, share what
they love to do, not who they
want to fall in love with; they
aren’t under pressure to fall head
overheels; and they can bring
friends along for the ride. These
sites also put users in a position
HUFFINGTON
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to meet a significant other without having to admit they need
dating help. They offer a courtship process more akin to what
people hope for offline. That is,
finding love the Hollywood way:
When least expecting it.
Like Hank, many are signing out
of their online dating accounts or
looking beyond dating site profiles
to try their luck on services better known as data bases for food
reviews and music recommendations than soul mates.
Take Ashley, a 24 year-old New
Yorker, who says she would never
Dianna Hank
and Noah
Zitsman met on
Turntable.fm
thanks to their
mutual love of
the band Phish.
Here they are
together at a
Phish concert.