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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Beware, daters: Not everyone who says they're looking for their "king" or "queen" has good intentions. There's a new dating term called "throning" − which means dating someone to raise your social ...

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.

Kasia Kovacs and her friends are in their 30s and have become exhausted with online dating apps. Ghosting, dead-end messaging, and red-flag matches have left them with much to be desired. Kovacs went ...

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 ...

Lucy Rout is not your typical entrepreneur. The 30-year-old Londoner — known for going viral for skiing off an icy slope in a bikini and for consulting her Instagram followers on whether she should ...

Today may be one of the scariest Sundays of them all—the Sunday Scaries final boss, if you will. The last day of the liminal post-Christmas vortex, the first Sunday of the year is dread itself. It’s ...

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 ...