'Love Stories of Tumblr': How the Entire Internet Became a Dating Site

"The thing that caught me is she was into the Cure, one of my top three bands, she has blue hair, she was posing in a DeLorean in her Facebook picture," recalls Mr. Jennings. She was a scientist, Rachel Truscon, living more than a thousand miles away. They now live together in Michigan. "We laugh about how crazy it is that we met," he says, especially given that his own experiment with online-dating sites lasted just an hour, because "it felt so unnatural." The couple now jokes about starting a Spotify-based dating site.