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I Kept A Spreadsheet of My Dates Over 8 Months. Here’s What I Learned.
A rational approach to online dating
It was 2019 and I had just moved to a new city.
You know what that means — time to explore! And dating just happened to be a way to simultaneously explore the city, and well, date — two birds with one stone.
It was the first time I’d really gotten into using the apps, having only previously engaged with them through the periphery.
I was surprised at the volume of people you could match and potentially meet, and how relatively low effort it was, everything happening at the flick of a finger.
Pretty soon, I had a lineup of first dates to go on.
But quickly, the stories of everyone I met started to blur and it was hard to keep track of each person’s details.
So, I did what any rational human being would do: I started a spreadsheet to keep track of it all (duh!).
What the spreadsheet consisted of
For those of you who are curious, the spreadsheet accumulated a total of 20 people over the course of eight months, after which the start of the pandemic caused this whole dating thing to come to a screeching halt.
