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dating app burnout
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We Used to Just Say Hello: How Dating Apps Quietly Broke the Way We Meet
A dispatch on the strangest thing we've done to ourselves: we invented a machine that connects us to everyone, and somehow forgot how to talk to the person standing right next to us. The real research on how online dating rewired courtship, why approaching a stranger now feels like defusing a bomb, why we're the loneliest we've ever been — and the low-tech, dirt-under-the-fingernails way back out. No villains here except an incentive. And no, the fix is not another app.