Students at several colleges this fall will be living with roommates that they hooked up with using Webroomz software, a computer roommate-matching service. Students access profiles of likely roommate sorted by the auto-match system and choose their own roommate. Though we don't know Webroomz' methods for sorting possible roommates, the more traditional sorting processes mentioned in this NYTimes article on computer roommate matching seem a little rigid.

Prison inmates are using the internet to hook up as well, with penpals.