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The Ultimate Predicament with Dating Apps and Where They are Headed
How to Meet Someone without Technology Killing Your Self-esteem and Making You Feel More Alone than You were before Making an Account
Dating apps seldom improve our lives or make us happier. They exploit basic human interaction; reduce us down to our most superficial characteristics: name, job title, and location; and research illustrates the adverse mental health issues affecting their users. Their business model is no different than hedge funds. They add no intrinsic value to the economy; do not produce or manufacture any product; and are just vessels for redistributing money. These companies are profiting billions of dollars by picking the pockets of predominantly young Americans, who are already in financially precarious times, at least compared to Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. To make things worse, over half of young adults meet through dating apps, even when they’re attending college, surrounded by thousands of people who are the same age!
Millennials use anywhere between 10 to 20 hours a week on these apps — these are not hours spent meeting new people, these are hours spent on their phones chatting with people they may never meet, mindlessly swiping, idly staring at their screens and figuring out how to respond to a single message. It comes as no surprise that research now shows that people using…
