Dating apps have radically reshaped the modern romance landscape. How we present ourselves and find other people on the dating market is now filtered through a digital lens. Dating Apps have turned the art of finding a partner into an online shopping experience very different from the raw, face-to-face courtship the previous generation had.
But what about the companies that make dating apps? How do the apps work? What is the science behind them? Are the dating apps really trying to find us our soul mate or is there something more sinister going on?
In this Episode of Tech4Evil Manal and Reinhardt examine the rise of dating apps, their origin story and the science that keeps us swiping obsessively. We also look at how these apps might take very personal information like our salary, religion and sexual orientation and send it on to third parties you never knew about. And what about the terrifying new things dating apps have brought us like addictive behaviors, harassment, deception, exploitation and even a rise in sexual assault? Is the price we’re paying to find our match too high?
Join Manal and Reinhardt as we explore the world of dating apps, find out what YouTube has to do with dating apps, how much money we spend on these apps annually and how they might make our love lives sick. Don’t miss this important episode and join the growing movement that is taking back our digital agency and fighting to keep tech good! For young and old and for our collective digital future.
We want to hear from you. Tune in, and tell us what you think. Email us at contact@tech4evil.com. Follow us on Twitter: @tech4evil. And if you've spotted Big Tech going too far, use the hashtag #EvilSpotter and mention @Tech4Evil and share your story. Meet the guy who turned dating into an addiction, TIME Tinder founder Sean Rad explains why the dating app is so popular, Business Insider I Just Figured Out Why Online Dating Doesn’t Work, Medium The Dark Side of Tinder: The Dark Triad of Personality as Correlates of Tinder Use, Research Gate Dating Apps, Research Gate What Makes Tinder Users Tick?, Pschology Today The one thing dating apps will give you for sure? Addiction On a 30-something’s Refusal to Use Dating Apps, Rachel Presser Hype at First Swipe: The Dark Side of Using Dating Apps, Andrea A When it comes to dating advice, why is it always women who must improve?, The Conversation From ghosting to ‘backburner’ relationships: the reasons people behave so badly on dating apps, The Conversation Tinder Stats & Dating Apps Market, Business of Apps Why dating apps make you feel awful, Vox We’ve come to expect being treated badly on dating apps, The Guardian I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets, The Guardian Music by Reinhardt Sosin. Media production by East Coast Studio.