On the wire

●DATING GAME · The first message problem. ●BROTHERHOOD · The male friendship recession. ●DATING GAME · Situationships: the relationship category that isn’t. ●STATUS · Granovetter’s weak ties and the people you haven’t met yet. ●BODY · The fitness effect: what the research shows and what it doesn’t. ●ATTRACTION · The confidence variable. ●STYLE · What your shoes communicate before you say anything. ●ATTRACTION · What Buss found.

Hub 06 · 1 dispatches

Communication

Ghosting, breadcrumbing, repair attempts — what to say, and what it means.

DISPATCH No 01

Read receipts and the death of plausible deniability.

The read receipt did not change how people behave in relationships. It made the behavior visible. The visibility is the problem.

Daniel Kestrel 7 min