Have Dating Apps Killed Romance?

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Real OKCupid message: “Hi, good evening, nice photos. You are not fat.” It’s rough on dating apps. Can romance survive?

Eric Klinenberg wrote Modern Romance with Aziz Ansari. This week, he joins Manoush to make the case that dating apps have killed romance. Featuring a mystery dater, reporting from the frontier of 21st century love.

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0:00.0	Yeah, so I walked into this bar, kind of excited to see if I could connect with a guy.
0:07.4	And I looked around and every single guy at the bar was on their phone on dating apps,
0:12.2	every single one.
0:15.0	Dating apps have killed romance.
0:18.2	Is this true?
0:19.2	Do you think dating apps like OKCupid and Tinder have killed romance?
0:24.9	Some of you do.
0:26.4	Or you at least think that finding love online has some serious downsides.
0:31.6	You have to learn how to navigate, trying to rule out those creeps and those weirdos
0:38.4	that you may come across as people that are too forward.
0:40.7	So just basically trying to read people over a computer, screen or exchanges over your
0:46.6	telephone is very difficult.
0:48.3	Online dating is conditioning us the thinking of other people as numbers and statistics
0:52.9	replaceable rather than valuable.
0:54.9	Dating is not looking for a job.
0:56.6	Let's not forget about all the people that we see in our day to day lives.
0:59.2	I definitely think that dating apps destroyed dating and romance.
1:03.8	I think when people met in real life, they were trying to get to know individual people
1:08.2	that they came across versus continuously swiping and looking for potential better matches
1:15.5	on the internet.
1:18.8	Those were listeners Tracy Hunter and Nadia.
1:21.5	I'm a new summer Odie, your guide to this accelerating world.
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