Online dating - passion or peril? You be the judge. This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Virginia Vitzthum, author of I Love You, Let’s Meet: Adventures in Online Dating. We chatted candidly about our forays into online dating, how Virginia moved from writing for Salon.com to developing a full-length book which examines the culture of dating online. We talked about the key players in the marketplace (and are we now to call online dating sites a “marketplace” - shopping for potential partners much how we’d select books to read or outfits for work or gadgets for our car?) and how their business has evolved over the years, the PROFILE and how many people use it as a means of reinvention rather than a vehicle for finding a partner. Is dating a numbers game? Does online really work? Have people found true love? On today’s show, Virginia Vitzthum and I dissected the commonplace act of meeting people via computer.

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*Join me next week as I chat with David Matthews, author of the memoir, Ace of Spades.

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