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You may assume you're the only one who is sending messages to wildly attractive strangers and not getting a response, but according to an analysis of the behaviour of online daters, almost everyone is doing the same. Almost a third of Australians have used internet dating, but for such a beloved pastime we keep our techniques and stratagems pretty secret. Do you bother messaging people you consider way out of your league? Do you tell them they're attractive, or do you try and undercut their confidence? To answer these questions and more, University of Michigan sociologists analysed the online dating site messaging habits of more than , heterosexual people from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle.

In fact, the majority of online daters seek out partners who are more desirable than themselves, suggests a new large-scale analysis by University of Michigan researchers published in Science Advances. The majority of people in these dating networks contact prospects who are about 25 percent more desirable than themselves. They also tend to tailor their messaging strategies, sending relatively longer messages to contacts who are further up the hierarchy. If you are contacted by people who are themselves desirable, then you are presumably more desirable yourself, say the researchers, who are both also external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. The researchers applied the algorithm to data from users of a dating website in New York, Boston, Chicago and Seattle. Among other things, the algorithm reveals how people behave strategically during online courtship by altering the length and number of messages they send to individuals at different levels of desirability.

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ANN ARBOR—Teens expect to experience some digital forms of abuse in dating, but girls may be suffering more severe emotional consequences than boys, according to a new study. Overall, teens experience this digital dating abuse at similar rates, but girls reported that they were more upset by these behaviors and reported more negative emotional responses. Students completed the surveys between December and March