Local newsletters are the new matchmakers?

People are out there, not too far away, just like you. Curious article in The Atlantic about how local newsletters are “playing cupid with their like-minded readers.” Snippet from the article below, available in full here:

In their way, newsletter personals have the potential to delight and influence all sorts of readers, even those not participating in the experiment directly. For one, they provide entertainment (“I own four mullet wigs. So I hope you don’t hate 80s rock,” an ad in The Eastside Rag read) and useful conversation starters (I love July’s “How important is cuddling to you?”). But they also offer heartening evidence, to anyone eavesdropping, that people are out there, not too far away, looking for someone who might be—to quote Mister Rogers, that great philosopher of love and community—just like you.

We’re still waiting on our first “missed connection” or personal ad from one of our members. Don’t be shy, neighbors; fortune (and love?) favors the bold.