A set of graphs doing the rounds on Twitter recently purported
to show the changes in how heterosexual and homosexual couples
meet. While categories such as "through friends", "in a bar",
and "at school/work" were either declining or holding steady,
one category has exploded in the last decade: "met online".
According to these stats, 20 percent of heterosexual couples
sampled, and nearly 70 percent of same-sex couples met this way
and its growth shows no signs of abating. But is dating online
that different from the traditional methods on a psychological
level?   All but the most basic online dating sites include some
kind of algorithm to try and partner customers up with someone
they'll hit it off with, with varying degrees of scientific hype
behind their advertising copy. The notion that "opposites
attract" is completely bulldozed over, for the quite legitimate
fear of inundating each dater with people they will absolutely
despise. A recent paper from the Association of Psychological
Science was pretty clea