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Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life?
d2ncal wrote in to tell us about a new service that takes all the guess work out of a relationship by providing you with timely feedback, and charts to see how your affection is trending. TheIcebreak was created by Christina Brodbeck and Dwipal Desai, who gave up their jobs at YouTube to create the relationship quantifying service. The pair have gone to great lengths to become relationship experts by doing things such as: reading books on relationships, and enlisting the help of a couples therapist, to ensure that the data collected is useful to your long term love life. The service is free now, and Android and iPhone apps are coming soon."
Where's the fun in that? ;)
I entered all my info and now all it ever responds with is "Outlook not so good" every time I ask it for advice on improving my love life.
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I'm a computer geek to the core. Nothing can fix my love life.
It is a really simple algorithm they used, since you visited their site your relationship is trending down. Even more so if you get the app.
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And perhaps you should know that it may not be the best idea all the time.
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If your relationship really needs analysis by a disinterested or arm's-length third party to survive and flourish, then perhaps at least one of you is rather narcissistic or has Aspberger's or some other social maladjustment. Fair enough in those cases (although such persons might not necessarily either seek or follow good advice), but not very compelling for the rest of us.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
If you have to use an analytics app to gauge how your relationship is doing and get suggestions, then you are probably already beyond help.
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Divide by zero.
How about you, now hold on to something this will come as a shock, TALK TO YOUR PARTNER! Yep, the old yip-yap! You might find out that you have so little in common you hate each other more and go off and find someone else! Alright it's tough but at least you'll know immediatley and talking won't cost you a dime!
On the other hand you may find you have some great laughs and next thing you know you may find you've been togther for 20 years ( like me an my Missus ) and still find, just by talking, that after all that time you still enjoy each others company!
A site asks you and your SO questions and predicts your happiness over time? I don't think this is going do any good for your love life. Just love and support your SO and make your own happiness.
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doing things such as: reading books on relationships
Whilst some things can be learned from books (law being a reasonable example), and many things can be improved through learning from books, I'm not wholly convinced that one can become an expert on relationships by reading books about relationships - it strikes me as a field in which expertise would require actual, real world experience?
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...Mean little to an individual.
It for sure can fix the problem that singles are better consumers.
According to the tag.
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It is my belief that any input that sparks communication between you and your SO will ultimately have a positive effect on your relationship. That is that if the two of you both passionately believe that you are in it for the longhaul then it will allow you two to discuss each others desires and frustrations. If there is uncertainty or a major disconnect communication of these things could end the relationship sooner so that each person can move on with their lives. For those couples where one or both are introverted this type of service could help give feedback without either of the persons feeling like they are exposing themselves. It achieves this because it does not give feedback in a person X did wrong.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
If it keeps you thinking about it instead of just taking your partner for granted, that might be plenty.
NOTHING can fix that train wreck.
1) Hold yourself to a high standard (hygiene, fashion, confidence [the real kind, not the knock-all-others-down-a-peg kind], health, well-roundedness [have lots of other things to do than obsess over girls and sex])
2) Pay attention to her every nuance, her reactions to what you say and do, her favorite ice-cream or wine, where she likes to be touched, anything. Everything she does is data to be stored in your internal database. Pay attention to detail like you do with code, it's an underrated talent that programmers have but don't apply to anything else IRL.
3) Do not internalize, you will only shoot yourself down
4) Make her miss you, be available, but not too available, YMMV depending on her interest
5) Know when to call it quits and move on, some girls will appreciate your company while others will give an inch while they take your mile.
6) Don't be negative and don't rant about shit she obviously isn't interested in. Some girls DO think nerds are cute, even hot ones, but don't want to hear a long-winded passage about the Prime Directive (whatever that is, I'm a Star Wars fan :p)
7) Layman's terms, layman's terms, layman's terms, I can't stress this enough. You can't connect with a girl if you can't relate to her. Even with layman's terms, most of our professions are still to complicated to understand. They are just fine with hearing that you really love your job and consider it like an art form and how your work helps people (depending on the profession, that is).
8) Clean your house, make it spotless and keep it that way. Your living quarters are a reflection of who you are as a person, and girls pick up on this.
9) Money is (almost) no object, IF the girl appreciates it. Don't look cheap, but don't look desperate either. Pay for her dinner, get her good seats to the hockey game, etc. Be wary of gold diggers (see #5)
10) Get help from someone more experienced than you who is willing to help you (someone who isn't a PUA who only cares about getting into panties anyway, they fail at just about everything else regarding women). Search the internet, but be wary of the sources. Advice from men has priority over advice from women by a huge margin. Ignore tips from movies, TV, romance novels, your mom at all possible costs!
*Coming from 15+ years experience of being an abject failure at romance, and finally getting some well deserved poetic justice :)
Who are these people to be giving love advice? According to the summary, their supposed expertise consists of "reading books on relationships" (How many, and which ones?) and "enlisting the help of a couples therapist" (What, like one? What are the qualifications of this supposed couples therapist?).
In case any of you guys haven't figured it out yet, 90% of people trying to give you advice on any subject are completely full of shit, including the authors of books and therapists. In anything related to love and relationships, there's even more bullshit. My advice is: Find people in your real life that have the kind of relationships you want, and get advice from them. Ignore anyone who claims to be an expert until they have proven themselves to you, either through their advice matching your real-life experience, or you personally witnessing them having the kind of relationships you want with the kind of people that you want.
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