What's Going on With Dating Apps?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A recent op-ed in The New York Times laments a decline in quality of dating apps. Listeners call in to share what their experience with online dating has been like recently and how they are coping with changes to the algorithms that fuel the apps.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC and to end today with something completely different, |
| 0:13.5 | 10 minutes of calls for anyone who has recently used a dating app. |
| 0:19.0 | How are dating apps working for you are not or not? |
| 0:22.0 | Are dating apps in 2024 a good experience or a good way to meet people in your experience |
| 0:27.7 | two one two four three |
| 0:29.8 | w ny c two one two four three nine six nine two WNYC 212 433 9692. |
| 0:35.0 | Why do we ask this today? |
| 0:36.4 | Well, the phrase platform decay, |
| 0:38.8 | have you heard that phrase platform decay |
| 0:41.5 | was recently coined to describe how tech platforms, all kinds of tech platforms |
| 0:46.6 | from social media sites to Amazon have declined in quality as they've expanded. Now a new app ed in the New York Times |
| 0:55.1 | by sexual culture critic Magdalene J Taylor confirms that dating apps are also |
| 1:01.5 | suffering the same fate. |
| 1:03.2 | Most platforms, she writes on making people pay for premium features, |
| 1:07.9 | changing the overall experience. |
| 1:09.7 | So have you seen the piece, it's titled, it's not you. |
| 1:12.9 | Dating apps are getting worse. |
| 1:15.1 | So we're opening up the phones to online daters. |
| 1:18.8 | How are dating apps working for you or not? |
| 1:21.8 | Are dating apps in 2024 a good experience or a good way to meet people in your experience. |
| 1:28.3 | 212 433 WNYC 212 433 962 this is a short call in so call in and pretty much you'll get right on and if you |
| 1:39.7 | use dating apps for a while now to the point of the up ed how have the apps changed |
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