The Potential Effects of Dating Apps on Social Networks

There are two potential effects of these dating apps. The most obvious one is that they facilitate you meeting a lot of people and facilitating encounters. And this could lead to less sorting because you're contemplating more options. But we don't exactly know what is the algorithm that determines that I see this person or this other person. So in a sense, this may also be restricting the set of people you meet to people that are more similar to you.