‘Why am I talking to 10 guys?’ The rise and fall of dating apps

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Swiping, benching, ghosting… Dating apps can be so cold. Now that disgruntled singles are realising the best way to meet someone is in real life, will a new world of ‘offline dating’ bring people back together?

‘We find connections and then we let them fall through our hands.’Last modified on Sun 20 Nov 2022 09.09 GMTcan’t remember how we started talking, only that we were sitting on the rooftop of a friend’s house with the fake leather of the sofa underneath us tacky on the back of my thighs. He wasn’t my usual type. In his vintage football shirt and mullet he looked a bit like an art school student, but he was funny enough to make up for it.

It has been 10 years since Tinder revolutionised the landscape of dating by allowing its users to swipe right to like someone, and left to say no. In February it celebrated an impressive 75m monthly active users, but apps are coming under increased criticism as more of us begin to question the benefits of our constant swiping.

Others complain of “swipe fatigue”, when the pressure to match with and talk to multiple people at once starts to feel overwhelming. “I don’t think our brains are meant to process that many people in one go,” says Maddie, 25, from Leeds. “I have room for two and maybe at a push three, so why am I talking to like 10 guys?” Maddie mentions that it starts to feel like a “full-time job” communicating with people.

The growing backlash against dating apps sounds like an exciting prospect. Will we lean over and start chatting up people on trains, asking them what they think of the book they’re reading, that you just happened to have finished two weeks ago? The two of you sharing tiny bottles of wine from the tea trolley until you realise you’re soulmates somewhere outside Stevenage.

 

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