**🔥 Dating Apps Are a Mess (and Kinda Messing *Us* Up Too) 💔📱**
Back in the day, people met through friends, family, work, or school 👨👩👧👦🎓.
Now? It’s swipe-swipe culture. Tinder. Bumble. Hinge. You name it.
Sure, dating apps have helped — especially for people in marginalized communities 🏳️🌈🤝.
But they’ve also brought along some serious issues.
👻 Ghosting? Normalized.
📸 Unwanted photos? Unfortunately, common.
🚨 Harassment? Way too frequent.
🤖 People often act worse when they feel there are no real consequences.
Some stats that say it all:
- 56% of women have received inappropriate images 📲
- 40% were contacted repeatedly after cutting someone off 🚫
- 37% were insulted, 11% even felt physically threatened 😟
- 64% of men felt insecure due to low responses 📉
This isn’t just awkward — it’s exhausting 🧠💤.
Apps turn dating into a *game*.
Swipe left, swipe right — again and again — while getting the message that someone “better” might be a tap away 😮💨.
Why build something real when you can just start over?
And let’s be real:
If your pics aren’t 🔥 or you’re not 6 feet tall, you might never even get seen 🙃.
It’s shallow. It’s discouraging. And for many, it’s just... Draining.
So what can we do?
💡 Treat people like people — not profiles.
🫱🏽🫲🏼 Respect boundaries. Look for real connection.
👀 And maybe... Just maybe... Start a conversation in person.
Dating doesn’t have to feel like a simulation.
Let’s make it human again ❤️🩹.
About Christine Emba:
Christine Emba is an opinion columnist and editor at The Washington Post, where she focuses on ideas, society, and culture. She is also a contributing editor at Comment Magazine and an editor at large at Wisdom of Crowds, which includes a podcast and newsletter. Before this, Emba was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology and innovation. Her book, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, is about the failures and potential of the sexual revolution in a post-#MeToo world. Emba was named one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers by Prospect Magazine in 2022.
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