Breaking Up with Dating Apps
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🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For a while, it seemed like the only place to meet potential partners was through an app—Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc. But as the apps are trying to monetize their matchmaking—and some users now with a whole decade of striking out under their belts—old-fashioned meet-cutes-in-bars or, say, debutante balls look more and more appealing.
Guests:Â
Katherine Lindsay, culture writer and cofounder of Embedded
Rachael Stein, dating-app spelunkerÂ
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to my 2023 hinge wrapped. This year I swiped or was swiped on |
| 0:09.2 | one thousand three hundred thirty times had a hundred and five matches was |
| 0:12.4 | unmatched eighteen times, |
| 0:13.8 | when on 17 first dates had zero relationships |
| 0:16.3 | and said the words, why are men approximately |
| 0:18.2 | one billion times? |
| 0:19.5 | Rachel Stein has been playing the dating game for a while, specifically the dating app game. |
| 0:29.0 | I've been on the apps for two plus years now. |
| 0:33.7 | I used them previously, like when I was in my mid-20s |
| 0:38.8 | for about a year and then I stopped for a period of time. |
| 0:42.4 | And then it was a pandemic and I was like this is maybe not for me right now and I got back on in |
| 0:50.3 | 2022. Rachel's now 30 years old and she lives in Brooklyn and she decided to |
| 0:56.5 | track her most recent round of dating and make a video of her 2023 dating |
| 1:01.5 | stats. I also encountered five other people with |
| 1:04.3 | avocado allergies, was spiked on the most by people named Alex 22 times, followed |
| 1:08.8 | closely by Michaels who spiked on me 20 times. Alex is also the most popular name I spiked on four times, but ultimately I went out with zero Alexes. Why am I |
| 1:17.7 | still single, three words, low quality men? As you can tell from Rachel's video, her luck on dating apps, she mostly uses hinge, has not been great. |
| 1:30.4 | And I was talking to a friend of mine, I was like, is it really that like the quality of people change or did I get standards? |
| 1:36.0 | And he was like, I think you got standards. |
| 1:39.0 | So maybe it has just always been bad and I've just re-evaluated my approach to who I am choosing |
| 1:47.0 | to talk to and meet. Yeah, coming back after a month away was kind of disheartening. |
| 1:55.0 | I'll be honest with you. |
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