Love/Dating

The Love Debate: Finding Real Connections in a Virtual Landscape

To swipe or not to swipe?

Heart Affairs
Published in
5 min readSep 7, 2024

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“Every 14 minutes someone finds love.”

That’s quite a statement, considering the idea of finding true love can seem painfully elusive to so many people both online and offline these days.

This is one of the slogans for eHarmony, one of the more reputable dating sites that’s been in operation for twenty-four years now and was one of the first of its kind.

It’s been over two decades since the launch of commercial dating sites and online dating has evolved into a multibillion-dollar industry serving customers all over the world. With newer dating app sites like Tinder, Bumble, and Her — just to name a few — the online dating scene has seemingly taken over the world.

People do still meet one another organically in actual places in the outside world and, occasionally, they even fall in love. However, these days many people choose to view their potential relationship specimens from behind a screen instead of starting up an awkward conversation with a stranger.

Meeting someone organically out in the world and instantly hitting it off can seem way less likely to happen as opposed to finding a match online…

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Michelle Brown
Heart Affairs

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