Do Dating Apps Make it Harder to Find Love?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz and Lakshmi Rengarajan, hosts of the newest season of The Cut’s Land of the Giants, join Offline to talk about how apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble have redefined romance. They’ve named the season “Dating Games” and ask whether the goals of dating app companies are aligned with our romantic aspirations. Jon talks to them about the ways internet dating has gamified romance, what the current dating app generation has lost, and whether there are alternatives for finding love in a world of swiping.

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0:00.0	The amount of time people spend on Bumble a day is 90 minutes.
0:04.3	That's the same as TikTok.
0:06.2	That's some brainstem shit.
0:08.0	Like, what are you doing on Bumble for an hour and a half,
0:11.5	everything?
0:12.4	You know what I mean?
0:13.6	Not developing your sort of interpersonal skills.
0:18.3	I'm John Febrew.
0:19.3	Welcome to Offland.
0:22.6	Hey, everyone.
0:23.6	This week, I'm talking to St. Gita, St. Kurtz,
0:26.2	and Lakshmi Ringarajan.
0:28.0	Hosts of this season of Land of the Giants,
0:30.6	a podcast from the cut about big-text, biggest players.
0:34.8	On this season, St. Gita and Lakshmi
0:36.9	dig into something we haven't covered yet.
0:39.5	The world of online dating.
0:41.9	Their first episode, which is out now,
0:44.0	details the rise of the world's most infamous dating app, Tinder,
0:48.2	and the design decisions made by Tinder's founders
0:51.2	to prioritize engagement over the needs and desires
0:54.3	of the app's users.
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