Modern Romance doesn’t pretend to be about everyone – it focuses on heterosexual relationships, specifically those of middle-class, university-educated people who delay having children until their late 20s or 30s. Then there’s the wider, more toxic issue of whether this smorgasbord of options is genuinely making people happier.Īlong with Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University, Ansari embarks on an extensive search for answers, making trips to different cultures (Tokyo, Paris, Buenos Aires) for comparison, and also utilising focus groups, a Reddit research forum, a study and interviews with sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and ordinary people all over the world (some of whom agreed to be tracked via text, email, dating sites and apps). To facilitate their unprecedented romantic options, people have dating apps, mobile phones and social media, Yet, points out Ansari, they also have dilemmas du jour, such as what to think when someone is too busy to reply to a text but posts photos of their breakfast on Instagram (as happened to him).
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