OkCupid was probably one of the first official (and free) dating sites people dipped a toe in back before it was considered normal to marry someone you met on an app. Unlike Tinder or Bumble, it’s easy to sign up with a username reflective of your inner self, but more importantly, a name that doesn’t make it easy for…
OkCupid is launching a feature called Flavors this week that involves grouping people into specific categories based on personality traits. It sounds yummy.
Women who initiate the first move on dating apps tend to end up with better prospects (relatively speaking), according to a study by OKCupid.
A new parent is perhaps most sensitive to the milestones of getting older. It’s almost all you talk about with other people, and you get actual metrics at the doctor’s every few months. But the milestones keep coming long after babycenter.com and the pediatrician quit with the reminders. It’s just that we stop keeping…
Quick reminder if you’re deliberating between Tinder and OK Cupid and Match: They’re all owned by the same corporate parent, anyway!
The New York Post is reporting that Gilberto Valle—better known as the "Cannibal Cop," the former NYPD officer who was convicted of conspiring to cook and kill several women before having his conviction overturned—is back on online dating sites, looking for a dinner date. That's alarming, and at least kind of funny,…
Dust off your OkCupid account and reactive that PlentyOfFish profile you'd almost forgotten about (almost); It's the new year and right now is the busiest time for online dating sites. So take a new photo and start frantically sending winks and woos to everyone you're attracted to
This is a series called Sheroes & Zeroes, about the people who defined our year in culture in both terrific and terrible ways.
It's one thing to read all those awful Tinder and OKCupid messages from dumbasses who think they're entitled to women's attention and bodies—it's another thing to hear them read aloud. Machinima ETC's Creepy Text Theatre brings us just that.
It's Monday, which means it's time for your daily dose of WTF from OkCupid, the site that brings people together to find love but also ask potential romantic partners for some very specific, very odd things without any provocation. Today's tale of romantic terror is not for the faint of heart.
While some may still be hesitant to join the flashy (sometimes literally) world of online dating, it's obviously becoming more of an appealing option for those who are currently witnessing their own existential demise at the hands of loneliness. Well, bad news folks: relationships that start online don't last as long…
And so it comes full circle: That story about the couple who spent three weeks criss-crossing Eastern Europe sans suitcases as an OkCupid date is now crawling through the movie development process. Title: No Baggage. There's a screenwriter and everything!
If you're dating online these days, you have my deepest sympathies.
Fact: Over age 22, you're all dried up. Last week's bagels, yesterday's baguette. So says the data on what men really want when they are at home alone under the covers hiding from complex interactions. And you know data doesn't lie, just as you know that analogies comparing your worth to bread products are apt and…
Hot new trend: Dudes on dating sites freaking out at you when you don't immediately respond to their entreaties to hang. (If this were a true trend piece, the title would be something like, "Men: Are They the New Women?")
If someone asked you if you had "racist dating habits," you’d probably say no, as would most (decent) people. But after reading a lot of OKCupid profiles, the site’s founder Christian Rudder found evidence to the contrary, and now he's written a book about it.
Only an hour ago, I was sitting in my living room petting my guinea pigs and being blissfully unaware that the person you are about to meet exists. But then, a tipster (let's call him Brian, because that is his name) sent in the most nutty list of demands you've seen on OKCupid since...ever. Oh my god, what even is…
Here's what you should do if you accidentally rate someone's looks five stars when you didn't mean to: Anything but this. Literally, anything. Pouring Iodine all over your body and taking an ice bath is better, and that's just the first thing that came to mind. What are you doing, dude? What are you doing?
It's a tale as old as time: Boy signs up for OkCupid. Boy decides that girls are just there to find someone not to be lonely with. Boy gets disillusioned. Boy messes with girls on a dating website as a poignant project showing off the deep loneliness inherent to online dating. Boy creates Tumblr. Everyone thinks it is…
A good rule of thumb for internet denizens: if an online service is offered to you for free, then you are the product. At the very least, you're a data point, and, therefore, a test subject.
