Tinder Changed the Game - from Land of the Giants: Dating Games

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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From Land of the Giants, here is the first episode of this season, Dating Games. When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying the dating experience. But did the rise of dating apps make finding romance easier or harder, and what are the consequences of playing a game that never ends? Subscribe to Land of the Giants to get new episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're sharing a special episode of another great podcast, Land of the Giants.
0:04.8	In the newest season called Dating Games, the Verge and the Cut are teaming up to uncover
0:09.0	the secrets of the dating app industry and show what happens when your love life becomes their
0:13.5	business. Land of the Giants is a podcast that explores how the biggest tech companies
0:18.1	rose to power and what they're doing with that power. This season, Dating Games explains
0:22.9	the economics of the dating industry and tells a story of real people trying to find love on an app.
0:28.2	In this first episode, you'll hear about the origins of matchmaking apps and how they change
0:32.5	dating culture forever. New York Magazine features writer Allison Davis, explains the beginning of
0:38.0	Tinder for her and what 10 years on the app looks like. Listen to the entire series to find out
0:43.6	what it means when your romantic life is part of a company's bottom line. Follow Land of the Giants
0:48.4	wherever you listen with new episodes out every Wednesday. Here's the first episode.
1:01.1	I'm just like a digital native. You get everything online, groceries, clothes, music,
1:07.5	it just seemed natural that I would get a mate there as well. This is Allison Davis. Today,
1:13.6	she's a features writer at New York Magazine. But 10 years ago, she was in grad school and single.
1:20.6	Very single. In theory, there was a huge dating pool on her campus. In practice, she was having
1:29.6	a hard time meeting people. So she downloaded this new app called Tinder and suddenly there was an
1:35.8	entire catalog of people at her fingertips. It felt exciting and optimistic and like I was about
1:42.5	to have a whole bounty of experience as waiting for me. That would be fruitful enough that I could
1:48.7	delete the app. It was 2012. The iPhone had been around for a few years, which meant that there were
1:55.1	apps for just about everything, promising to make all kinds of inconvenient things more convenient.
2:01.9	It made sense that there'd be one for dating too, one like Tinder. It sold itself as like an easier
2:08.8	way to date, just like control over your dating life in the palm of your hand. And that was really
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