Online

My OkCupid Affair With A World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player

This story sounds mean. It’s about a girl judging a boy because he’s a nerd (like so many of us!) that she met on OkCupid. But that’s the point: Judging people on shallow stuff is human nature, and the magic and absurdity of online dating is how immediately and directly it throws that into relief. One person’s Magic is another person’s fingernail biting, and no profile in the world is deep enough to account for that.


August 25, 2011
Online

New York OkCupid Profiles Are Really Depressing

It’s no secret there’s a good population of arseholes on OKCupid, but here in New York, the online dating world boasts some particularly uncreative types: the guy who was “born and raised” listening to Dylan and the girl who is “obsessed with” Jay Z.


August 12, 2011
Software

OkCupid Adds Location Feature For Quick Shags, Romantic Dates

Last month we discovered that OkCupid is pretty much the only dating site you should consider if you’re a hipster/nerd. If you’re particularly after the nerdlinger demographic, their new geolocation feature for Android and iOS apps will aid you in your search for true love.


July 12, 2011
Online

Race And Online Dating: An Experiment

I’m a tall, half Asian woman. I’m a performing artist and a healer. I dance in nightclubs, as well as talk to people about their problems. I have tattoos. I dress in black and chrome a lot. I’m Buddhist. I speak Texan fluently.


April 20, 2011
Online

Why Twitter Might Be Ruining Your Love Life

A new series of studies out of OKCupid’s data-crunching love labs reveal daily Twitter users have shorter relationships than those who don’t – 5 to 10 per cent shorter. This makes sense. Twitter might turn us into more annoying, vain mates.


March 27, 2011
Online

4chan Is Trying To Prank Single Lonely Guys With OkCupid

The rabble rousers at 4chan are creating fake OkCupid profiles in an attempt to create an involuntary flashmob in New York City. It’s sad for the potential victims but I gotta admit, sorta funny!


January 12, 2011
Geek Out

The Maths Of Beauty

Today, we will investigate female attractiveness, but we won’t be doing the usual photo analysis stuff. Instead, we’ll look past a woman’s picture, into the reaction she creates in the reptile mind of the human male.


November 1, 2010
Online

The Ugly Bug Ball Is Online Dating For The "Aesthetically Challenged"

Here at Gizmodo we’ve profiled online dating sites for Apple fans, cupids, and even virgins. Did you know there’s also a dating site for ugly people? There totally is! And it’s just bagged its first engagement.


September 9, 2010
Geek Out

The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’

What makes a culture unique? How are whites, blacks, Asians, whoever different from everybody else? What tastes, interests and concepts define an ethnicity? Is there any way to make fun of other races in public and get away with it?

August 11, 2010
Cameras

iPhone Users Have Twice As Much Sex As Android Users (Plus! Sexiest Cameras)

According to 11 million-plus images indexed by users of dating site OK Cupid, iPhone users get laid twice as often as Android users.