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(Financial Times, but via archive.is so no paywall.)
As someone who's old and married, I've never had to use dating apps, but have been fascinated by how much they've taken over, and the various features and innovations they've added over the years. This is half a tech piece, half an economic one (if crossposting existed, would definitely throw this in ~econ as well), since it's a combination of factors leading to the decline of these apps.
Really fun and good read.
Really is a weird, gamefied place to be. Totally male-dominated, thus with total female power.
Makes the interactions freakin strange. I'm very happy not to be using them
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I'm in the same boat as you. The situation is fascinating (from a distance), but I'm grateful to not be in it.
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I talked to a young woman recently. She's 21, married now with a little baby.
Apparently the dating war stories she heard from her two older sisters were so bad that she talked to her mom, her mom put out the word with her (church) friends, and found an eligible young man (good looking, very nice guy with a decent job). And it all worked out.
Maybe planned marriages will make a comeback?
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Probably a canary in the coalmine for apps in general. People are sick with the gamification. People are sick with online. The trend of the latter half of the decade may well be a return to the offline world, at least for the well off.
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I am glad to see them decline and society heal!
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