Still, Hoffman says, it's better to hot take date than to not talk about your values or opinions at all. Ideally, however, ...

In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about the modern business of dating.

In her 2012 book, Addiction by Design, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll lays out the different technological mechanisms casinos employ to keep people gambling. From the architecture of buildings and ...

“I’m so over waiting, like when is it gonna be my turn? What did I do wrong? What is wrong with me?” says content creator Jules Montgomery, 28, as she cries to the camera. “I don’t want to sit around ...

In September 2023, Adam Raines made a Reddit post revealing what feels like a near-universal problem for singles: His dating app conversations are painfully boring. Attached to the post, titled ...

A new survey reveals a surprising trend: one in three dating app users turn to the platform for career networking, with many finding success in landing interviews, mentorship, or even job offers.

As with most dating trends (e.g. run clubs, marriage contracts, new dating apps), I first learned about the concept of pitching a single friend through a PowerPoint presentation from TikTok. It was a ...

It’s no longer taboo to meet your partner on the internet. The evidence is everywhere: It’s on your refrigerator door, where you’ve hung up the wedding invitations of friends who met on Tinder. It’s ...

Yet in a tech-forward world, which has contributed to the loneliness epidemic, paired with an overall decline in marriage, has the rise of dating content and coaching become a business tactic preying ...

No one likes dating apps, especially the people who use them. Mounting fatigue with ghosting, swiping, situationships and talking stages has led to a general downturn in usage. In February, Wired ...

Among the relics of 2024’s chaos was a phenomenon as absurd as it was telling: celebrity look-alike competitions. It kicked off with a Timothée Chalamet contest in New York, which quickly snowballed ...

Another day, another new dating trend! Last week, we covered “monkey-barring.” Today, let’s talk “Shrekking.” Yes, that’s Shrekking as in Shrek, the famed ogre himself. And while we all love Shrek (or ...