The State of Dating Apps

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3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Candice Lim is joined by dating culture researcher Lakshmi Rengarajan and culture writer Kate Lindsay to discuss the past, present and future of dating apps. Online dating has been around since the days of dial-up. But apps like Tinder disrupted the market and changed the way we’ve dated for the past decade. Recently, there’s been several trends emerging, from Gen-Z abandoning the apps to baby boomers finding love later in life. So are we witnessing the death of dating apps or have they integrated themselves so deeply into our lives that we can’t live without them? This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.2	And it's Valentine's Day.
0:56.0	Happy Valentine's Day to you, Rachel.
0:58.0	How will you be celebrating?
0:59.8	Well, as a perpetually single gal who is also opposed to Galentine's Day now,
1:06.0	because it's just a little bit to consumerism.
1:08.8	Exactly.
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1:14.3	played by the New York Phil Harmonic at the Lincoln Center.
1:23.8	That's actually a really, really cool thing to do because I also wanted to go. I mean, I will tell you that I'm actually in between because I don't know if I should go watch anyone but you that Sydney Sweeney Glenn Powell Romcom or Lisa Frankenstein, which is the movie that Diablo Cody wrote. Regardless, I'm going to walk into a house with some pretty strong date night vibes,
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