I Love You, Let's Meet; Adventures in Online Dating

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Prologue
How does the path of a relationship change when it starts with a profile? What do we reveal about ourselves - our personal lives and our private preferences - when we look for love online? Who are the people who actually manage to find happy relationships

Part 2
He answered immediately, pleased I'd gotten his handle's reference. And we were off. First a flurry of on-site e-mails, then the name disclosure and the switch to regular e-mail. In a few days' time, we were sharing our lives.

In this savvy guide to a fascinating new world, former sex columnist Virginia Vitzthum goes underground in the online world to navigate the meanings and mores of sex and love on the web. Using interviews, anecdotes, and her own experience with dating online, Vitzthum builds an animated and irreverent narrative about modern intimacy.

How does the path of a relationship change when it starts with a profile? What do we reveal about ourselves - our personal lives and our private preferences - when we look for love online? Who are the people who actually manage to find happy relationships by trolling the web? Success stories, sociopaths, and fearing the F2F meeting: Vitzthum is an entertaining decoder of online culture, under all of which lies the question - what does the internet do to human relationships? A compassionate voyeur, Vitzthum approaches her fellow online daters with an open curiosity that makes her the perfect guide.

Virginia Vitzthum is a journalist and former sex columnist for Salon.com. She has written for the Village Voice, Elle, Ms., Time Out, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY..

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