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 05 · 1 dispatches

Cultural Layer

Loneliness, atomization, and the social infrastructure underneath dating.

DISPATCH No 01

Why a billion matches a week produced lonelier humans.

The Surgeon General named loneliness a public health crisis in 2023. Dating application use increased over the same period. These facts are…

Eleanor Vance 7 min