Digital Dating

Race and Online Dating: One Woman’s Story

I did my usual searching, messaging, and IMing but on this site, I received not one response, which I found perplexing. I was just as hip and trendy as the other singles on the site – I fit right in. Except for one small thing – my skin was brown.

QUIZ: Are You Ready To Make Your Relationship Facebook Official?

What on his Facebook page surprise you most? If the answer is “C) his last name,” you may stop taking this quiz now.

Facebook Is Wonderful and Terrible for Your Relationship

Facebook has been around for allllmost ten years. This means researchers have had plenty of time to study nearly a decade of FB data, and come to all sorts of conclusions (or at least, develop all sorts of theories) about its bad/good effects on your love life.

‘Modern Dating’ in 6 Seconds: We’re Releasing Our Entire Book on Vine

We love playing with Twitter’s new(ish) six-second video-sharing app, Vine. And since our first book, Modern Dating: A Field Guide, came out last week, we naturally decided — why not Vine the whole book?

Twitter Flirting, Gchat Romance & Breakup Vines: A Chat With Edith Zimmerman

Chiara Atik is HowAboutWe’s writer in residence. For the next few weeks, she’ll be discussing topics from the book with bloggers, journalists, comedians, and other people with lots of opinions on dating. First up: Edith Zimmerman of The Hairpin.

8 Dating Apps That Seriously Creep Us Out

Consider yesterday’s news that Down to Bang, a Facebook app, had just raised $1 million in seed funding. Its mission? To enable its 750,000 users to connect with Facebook friends they’d like to screw on the DL. Feel the romance!

I Met My Wife-to-Be on My First Online Date

I thought to myself “Well, yeah, I had this devious master plan and all, but last night was fun. She was amazing. Why the hell wouldn’t I want to see her again?” I spent that weekend texting her so much that I didn’t have the time to log into my account and set up all those other dates I envisioned.