Is It Time to Break Up with Dating Apps?

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How’s your love life? With platforms like Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, and OkCupid offering endless opportunities to connect, many people searching for The One think signing up for a dating app should be a go-to for finding their match. However, new research is showing some users are signing off, including ninety percent of Gen Z users. Those staying on the apps point to their ease of use, accessibility, and the countless success stories of happily coupled friends who met that way. Others say dating apps aren’t offering authentic connections. A paradox of choice has also developed, with a belief there’s always someone else who you can connect with, which has made people less satisfied with their options. Before we continue to swipe right, we debate the question: Is It Time to Break Up with Dating Apps? Arguing Yes: Maria Avgitidis, Matchmaker and CEO at Agape Match Arguing No: Melissa Hobley, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Tinder Nayeema Raza, Journalist and Host of "Smart Girl Dumb Questions", is the guest moderator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.6	This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan, your moderator and chief. Hi, everybody.
0:54.9	This week we're taping from the comedy cellar in New York City on the question, is it time to break up with dating apps? Now, as somebody who's been married for three decades, I would not know about dating apps. So I am excited to pass the stage for this one to our esteemed guest moderator, Naima Raza.
1:01.0	She is a journalist and a millennial who has reported and written a lot about dating in the New York Times and New York Magazine.
1:07.6	She covers a lot of other topics from tech to culture in her new show called Smart Girl Dumb Questions.
1:08.6	Please check it out.
1:10.5	You can find it wherever you find your podcast.
1:12.1	So on to the debate.
1:19.3	Naima, it's all yours. It's such a pleasure to be here tonight. As Don mentioned, I am a journalist.
1:23.4	I've written at places like the New York Times, New York Magazine, but I'm also a dater.
1:29.5	And it's almost like my second job, like many women in New York City. But I would say that it's one that I don't get paid for. It's not that kind of dating. It's not that kind of dating. I can tell
1:34.7	you from the reporting and the research on dating that anyone dating in 2025 knows it can be an
1:40.4	emotional roller coaster. You know, there's epic romance.
1:46.9	There is great tragedy sometimes.
1:51.0	And then most of all, it just feels like comedy.
1:55.3	Like deep, dark humor comedy sometimes.
1:58.9	And that's why we're here tonight at the comedy seller in New York City.
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