Martin Graf is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of South Wales. He says there's a reason you hear more and more about people just falling off the face of the planet instead of intentionally breaking things off. When people met through friends or family, there was some accountability implied. But now that a majority of people meet outside of their social circles, that accountability doesn't really exist anymore. These changing social norms, they made the dating scene start to feel sour. It got more superficial. And rejection on the app still felt deeply personal.
Today Kara’s out sick and we’re sharing an episode of Land of the Giants.
When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying the dating experience. But did the rise of dating apps make finding romance easier or harder, and what are the consequences of playing a game that never ends?
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