Dating beyond the apps: How are you meeting people these days?
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Dating beyond the apps: How are you meeting people these days?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202651 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

Swiping fatigue and AI bots are driving more and more people to real life experiences to find love. Your stories about how people are meeting now with Treena Orchard, author of "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps."

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and I think you kind of lose the feeling of connecting someone's feelings to me.

and the companies behind the apps are feeling the pain

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Good afternoon. I'm Amanda Pfeffer. This is the province's Open Line show Ontario today. This hour, offline dating. Are you trying it out? 1-888-817-8995.

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I delete a tender, briar, I'm done. It feels a little bit mindless at some level and the people start to just become pictures and words and I think you kind of lose the feeling of connecting someone's feelings to me.

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Dating apps swipe fatigue has become a real thing in the new dating lexicon and the companies behind the apps are feeling the pain with large layoffs at Bumble, Hinge and Tinder over the last few years. Do you think we're seeing sort of a shift in how people want to approach that search?

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