Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 of type Salon about Social Media

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Monday 12th March 2012

• The Algorithm Method: Love in the Social Media Age

  by Andrea Miller, Helen Fisher, Elizabeth Bernstein, Michael Lazerow and Thomas Miller

  Social media has made finding love easier: reconnecting with your college sweetheart on Facebook, broadcasting emotions on Twitter and maybe even finding your soul mate on a mobile dating app.

  Americans will spend near a billion dollars on online dating in 2011. A 2002 article by Rufus Griscom in Wired stated, "Twenty years from now, the idea that someone looking for love without looking for it online will be silly… Serendipity is the hallmark of inefficient markets, and the marketplace of love, like it or not, is becoming more efficient."

  A survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that two-thirds of divorce cases have used evidence from Facebook. Dating sites and social media outlets facilitate infidelity and exploitation in a relationship as efficiently as they bring couples together. Plus smart, professional 20-somethings are sexting with abandon. See gaffes by Anthony Weiner, Tiger Woods and et al. Are these technologies a blessing or a burden? Will the personal and professional continue to collide in dramatic ways?

  • Online Dating
  • Social Media

  At 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Monday 12th March

  In Capital Ballroom A, InterContinental Stephen F. Austin