Christine Emba

They were just opting out of doing it.

And I hear a lot of this anxiety when I've gone to college campuses and talked to young people

myself too.

There's just this worry about getting it wrong.

Like many of the technological developments over the past 10 to 15 years, I think that dating apps were something we were all very excited about when they first happened.

Like, yeah, this should make things easier.

And then they've kind of turned out to be a social cancer.

You know, one thing that I also hear from younger people about dating apps, and I mean, also from older people, honestly, is that first, especially men seem to feel like they experience just so much rejection on dating apps because, you know,

you're swiping through people like a deck of cards.

You see that there are so many people out there and then you try and match with them and they don't match with you.

Or you start a conversation and it doesn't go anywhere or they unmatch.

And it's like a volume of rejection that is kind of abnormal for a human person to experience.

And I think that kind of sours people on the use of the apps and sometimes on the opposite sex.

Um, women experience this rejection too, but also experience a lot of harassment, um, and sometimes like really scary things on the apps and the way that people approach them and talk to them.

Um, and so I think that can dim their view of the opposite sex.

Um...

And then there is also just like the way that the apps are set up, right?

I mean, like you really are swiping through hundreds of people.

Like you don't know what they're looking for.

They don't know who you are.