Sam_Yagan

Maybe have a more inviting username than "warlizard"? :)

Here's some OkCupid trivia: None of the four founders has ever been on an online date of any kind.

We were all dating our future wives when we started OkC. And before that, we were basically in college where online dating wasn't really pervasive.

I love this question. I've long believed that dating apps truly make society better, in several ways:

1) Undoubtedly, greater choice leads to the selection of higher quality spouses.

2) Technology makes it easier to meet people who are less similar (farther away, different socioeconomic levels, different ethnicity, etc.).

3) The ease of getting back in the dating market makes empowers people in bad relationships to leave them, knowing that loneliness isn't the only alternative to their current situation.

I'm not sure we'll do it exactly that way, but we have often discussed ways of enforcing people's age preferences. The problem is that not everyone cares about their age ranges equally, meaning that many people don't at all mind chatting with people outside their ranges -- their ranges are a preference, but not a firm filter.