Gotta wonder if the NYTimes editor assigned to this piece on Internet dating must have gotten grief for letting this last quote get through:

Feeling weary and, she said, “jerked around,” Ms. Gold let her paid subscription to Match.com expire, and she has turned to real-life singles mixers for professionals. “I think I just burned out,” she said. “It’s kind of like communism. On paper, it’s a perfect system.”

My daydreaming editor’s note: [So it doesn’t work off paper?! Pls. explain.–Ed.]