{"id":135074,"date":"2017-10-11T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135074"},"modified":"2017-10-11T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T05:31:31","slug":"rise-dating-website-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/rise-dating-website-society.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Dating Website Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating websites have radically changed how couples meet, and there is evidence that, among other things, it&#8217;s both increased the occurrence of mixed-race couples <i>and<\/i> is leading to an increased stability in marriage. At least that&#8217;s what a new paper describes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609091\/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/NvN7HmbDm4AlkZM0heC7E6PQXF5qH2-_Ul1YATaM6Iq-arj7E76AUhrvEzgZiP12lF7fTttUfSrnrvTpHSRwM8AXIUKnJxlU5HKD58SAY-zisXnzEGbfJz6jYTDuxUBsiDQpBe5TkJs-KiXmWw=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609091\/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society\/\">The way strangers meet via dating websites is changing society in unexpected ways, say researchers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JGRtruL3x9w\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating websites have radically changed how couples meet, and there is evidence that, among other things, it&#8217;s both increased the occurrence of mixed-race couples and is leading to an increased stability in marriage. At least that&#8217;s what a new paper describes. The way strangers meet via dating websites is changing society in unexpected ways, say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/rise-dating-website-society.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rise of the Dating Website Society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,740,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-race-racism","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/how-couples-meet.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27994,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/blocking-websites-can-have-amusingly-unanticipated-consequences.html","url_meta":{"origin":135074,"position":0},"title":"Blocking websites can have amusingly unanticipated consequences","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-May-12 1:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amusing juxtaposition of events:1. 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