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and the University of WisconsinMadison found 80 percent contained at least one fiction.
Yelp, for its part, acknowledges
that many Yelpers have used the
site for romance, but maintains
that it is in no way designed for
dating and that matchmaking is
not something it’s built features
to help foster.
Though Yelp might be an unorthodox way to meet, traditional
dating rules still apply.
“My rule is, if I text you and
you don’t get to me within a few
hours, then you’re too busy to
have time for me,” explains Grier.
“Also, for me to be comfortable
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meeting with you, I have to talk to
you at night because if you can’t
talk to me at night, then there’s
something you’re hiding.”
About a year after joining Yelp,
in April of this year, Grier opened
her Yelp inbox to find a note from
a 31 year-old in Livermore, California congratulating her on having her post highlighted as “Review of the Day.” Grier “thought
he was cute,” and they started
messaging. A month later, they
met at a get-together hosted by
Yelp for its Elite members.
“I guess you could say it was
love at first sight,” says Grier,
who adds that four months later
they are a couple and “totally
happy together.”
Grier argues she’d probably still
be single if she’d been limited to a
pool of men that satisfied a checklist of attributes or had relied on
sites’ “sophisticated” matchmaking algorithms — the same ones
debunked by the Northwestern
University study, which suggests
Grier’s now-boyfriend might have
been booted in favor of someone
only superficially compatible. “I
never ever would have been paired
up with him on Match or Chemistry because we’re total opposites,”
says Grier. Her boyfriend is seven