Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service.

We're your guide to the numbers in the news and in life.

I'm Ellie House.

This week, love in the age of swiping.

I doesn't seem like everybody is single and having difficulty finding a relationship nowadays

with all the options that we have in front of us.

Why millennial and Gen Z are the lost generation of romance?

You're as the hard fact, dating apps usually keep both men and women's single.

There seems to be a received wisdom that young people today, my generation, are more single

than ever before, and dating apps are to blame.

Nobody meets anyone at bars anymore.

Flirting is reduced to emotionless texts, and we are left to the algorithmic mercy of whichever

dating app is in vogue.

So the story goes.

But is there any evidence for this?

Well, before we get into the apps, we need to work out whether today's young people

actually are more single than the generations before them.

And here lies our first difficulty.

Not everyone agrees what single or in a relationship means.

I went to a Tinder future of dating event.

For research purposes, I promise.

And there, celebrity matchmaker Paul Carrick-Brunson told me how dating definitions are changing.

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