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从陌陌到微信，网络时代的社交媒体层出不穷，约会变得前所未有的容易。然而，社交媒体也彻底地毁掉了约会。人们不仅能够像浏览商品目录一样对潜在的约会对象挑挑拣拣，还能通过网络提前掌握他们的情报。神秘和浪漫不见了。真爱也更难求了。因为大家总觉得，未来还能找到更好的。 Online services enable a downright Seinfeld-ian level of superficial nitpickiness. 在线服务导致了完完全全宋飞正传式（Seinfeld，美国著名喜剧演员，代表作品《宋飞正传》风靡美国9年——译注）的、肤浅的吹毛求疵。 It was iconic '80s rocker singer Pat Benatar who popularized the phrase "love is a battlefield." But it has been the ubiquity of the mobile Internet that realized it. 20世纪80年代标志性的摇滚乐手佩特?班纳塔让“爱情就像战场”（love is a battlefield）这个说法家喻户晓。而移动互联网的普及则让这个说法成为了现实。 A few weeks ago, I had coffee with a twenty-something entrepreneur. One of the topics that came up was dating in the age of Facebook (FB), OkCupid, and the myriad of other digital services floating out there. A handsome, self-assured guy, he found online actually made dating harder and, in at least one case, impossible. When he asked out a cute girl at a party, she Facebook friended him before the date -- not uncommon -- and he accepted. | 
