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from the post-traumatic-swipe-disorder dept.
Are 'swipe left' dating apps bad for our mental health?
Dating apps have taken the world by storm, but has the trend for swiping right or left to like or reject potential matches contributed to many people's unhappiness and low self-esteem?
Following the end of her last relationship, Kirsty Finlayson, 28, did what many people do - she turned to dating apps to find love. But the incessant swiping and the stream of small-talk conversations that soon fizzle out left her feeling dejected. "Dating apps have definitely increased my anxiety," admits Kirsty, a solicitor who lives in London. "It fuels the idea of a disposable society where people can match, date once, and not give it much effort," she says. "I find it difficult to distinguish between those who are just using it as a way of passing time on their commute or ego-boosting and those who actually are looking for something serious."
[...] Despite the huge popularity of dating apps - and the millions of success stories worldwide - many users report that some apps make them feel low and experience self doubt. [...] Such experiences echo the results of a study two years ago by the University of North Texas, which found that male Tinder users reported lower levels of satisfaction with their faces and bodies and lower levels of self worth than those not on the dating app.
Trent Petrie, professor of psychology at the University of North Texas and co-author of the research, says: "With a focus on appearance and social comparisons, individuals can become overly sensitised to how they look and appear to others and ultimately begin to believe that they fall short of what is expected of them in terms of appearance and attractiveness. "We would expect them to report higher levels of distress, such as sadness and depression, and feel more pressures to be attractive and thin."
Earlier this year a poll of 200,000 iPhone users by non-profit organisation Time Well Spent found that dating app Grindr topped a list of apps that made people feel most unhappy, with 77% of users admitting it made them feel miserable. Tinder was in ninth place.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:49AM (5 children)
Look, I forged my experience in dating online from the Jews running OK Cupid. For years.
Dating online is what you do when you're strong and have thick skin. First of all, the administrators of dating online are all run by Jews. So from those first-principles you learn to trust nobody. You wade through the sea of garbage and find somebody you like, occasionally.
But sometimes you are not strong, and learn to simply not give a fuck. Whatever happens from then on is the problem of others, and not yourself. The people who administrate online dating are Jews, after all.
Free the problem of dating online from the Jews and their experiments, and what you are left with is a happier society.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:58AM (1 child)
I see a JEW modded me down. We may lose battles, but we will win the wars.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @04:41AM
You lost the war in the 4th century when Constantine converted to Christianity. You know, the Jewish founded faith that's trying to take over the world?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @03:28AM (1 child)
Match Group owns most dating sites/apps including PlentyOfFish, Match, Tinder, and OkCupid.
Here are the people running it:
https://ir.mtch.com/corporate-governance [mtch.com]
It seems Ethanol-fueled was correct, at least according to surnames. I doubt many of them actually practice the jewish faith, but there you go. They are in fact jews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @11:16AM
I doubt many of the men reading this post actually practice the incel faith, but there you go. They are in fact men.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 08 2018, @12:47PM
Thankfully it's not all of us they're after, just you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.