Online dating sites are often regarded as the kind of things that mature adults use to recapture the wider-ranging romantic opportunities of their younger days. But now there are a growing number of sites that let college students connect up by logging on.
Two years ago, Dan Stillman and Matt Eaton, then sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, launched wesmatch, a site featuring a humorous, elaborate personality questionnaire. The service allows students to rate themselves and their potential mates in categories ranging from sex drive to "socialisticbutterflyosity." An algorithm then calculates a student's compatibility with a list of matches. "I wanted a vegan girlfriend who plays the cello and likes folk music," Stillman says. The site has been a hit on the Wesleyan campus. This fall their more ambitious project, CampusMatch, may expand from five to dozens of schools. read the rest of the article here
A look at the new twist on Internet dating
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