Bonus: Get Off the Apps! With Jon Birger

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Meredith chats with business writer and journalist Jon Birger about why he thinks we should get off the apps and seek connection in other ways. Birger is the author of the books Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game and Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge. Email us at loveletters@boston.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.7	Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.8	Hi, all.
0:41.8	We're back with another bonus episode today.
0:43.8	I hope your summer is off to a great start.
0:46.2	I promise we're hard at work on season seven, more on that later.
0:50.1	Today I want to try to get to the bottom of a question I get a lot.
0:54.1	From a lot of different kinds of people.
0:56.6	Are dating apps worth it?
0:58.8	Or are they a colossal waste of time?
1:02.0	For those who have dating fatigue, those who are sick of swiping on face after face, is
1:06.9	it better just to delete the apps or take a break?
1:11.2	Maybe it's finally time to do life in real life.
1:14.6	I have a lot of answers to this question, depending on who's asking.
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