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Texting With Boys
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 10.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | gender, online dating, texting
Summary | The author loves how the digital age has changes dating enabling romantic interests to communicate mainly via text messages, despite the widespread opinion that cell phones have killed romance. However, many men prefer women to be good listeners in person and via text message and lose interest when women text them music and books recommendations.
Image Description | A GIF of the response being typed symbol known from messaging apps (speech bubble and ellipses).
Image Tags | gifs
How A Man Falls In Love
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.9.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating, texting
Summary | Two stories of men who fell in love on dating apps. One on Tinder and the other on Bumble. Both had already given up hope but then they matched with these perfect partners. They both report of fantastic chats they had messaging each other through the app and that the attraction was already clear from the digital conversations.
Image Description | A cartoon of a man with cupid.
Image Tags | male(s)
Have you got text appeal?
Newspaper | The Evening Standard
Date | 4.4.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | misunderstanding, online dating, texting
Summary | Negotiating relationships and sexualities via new media can be challenging. The online forum hetexted.com helps people (mainly women) 'decipher' the social meanings of text messages. Many women use the site to get advice about what their love interest meant with a text message and how they should respond depending on their intentions. The creators of the site report that the demand is huge so that they even expanded to London as well (they had started in New York). They have however realized that dating customs and hence texting conventions are culturally distinctive.
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