Doubting Dater
What should I do when my Internet dates text lame excuses to cancel?
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: What should you do when your Internet dates repeatedly text lame excuses to cancel?
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
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