Clicking, Swiping, Boosting, Super Liking

Dating While Gray™

Laura Stassi

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.4 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Since the first modern dating website was created in the mid-1990s, millions of people have spent a lot of time, energy and dollars dating online. So why is the jury still out on if technology actually leads to lasting love connections? | Thanks to our sponsor SilverSingles. More at: silversingles.com/datingwhilegray.

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0:00.0	Online. Everybody's talking about online dating. I did my first e-harmony, and then I got back on
0:13.3	Match.com. How many dating sites? Two. Zeusk and International Cupid. So meet Mindful.
0:22.3	It's for people that probably are more into yoga and meditation.
0:29.3	Since COVID-19, a record number of single people have turned to online dating, clicking, swiping, boosting, super liking.
0:39.7	I used, like, plenty of fish, bumble, hinge.
0:43.4	I tried those.
0:44.7	Encourished by another friend, like, all these guys are out here.
0:48.4	Try a bumble again.
0:49.4	And so I tried it again.
0:51.7	I think four different ones.
0:53.0	And right now I'm on two of them.
0:54.8	Like I'm on Tinder.
0:56.7	I was on the R-time.
1:00.1	Tinder and OKCupid at the same time.
1:03.4	I was like, okay, I'm just going to spend 15 minutes a day looking at this.
1:08.5	So many sites, so much time and energy spent. But does online dating actually lead to love?
1:15.8	That's what we're exploring on this episode of Dating While Gray. I'm Loristasi.
1:23.9	About six months before the coronavirus lockdown, the Pew Research Center did a study on online dating.
1:34.9	And let me just say, we're using the term online to refer to both dating websites and dating apps on mobile devices.
1:42.6	This study found that only 16% of Americans 50 and older
1:47.5	had ever tried online dating. And of this number, only about 6% had ever entered into a
1:55.0	committed relationship with someone they met online. Now, if the Pew researchers had narrowed
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