Quarter of people actually meeting from an app get married. it does seem to be a very important transition. there was an article in i think it was new york magazine which pointed out that the whole downtown bar scene has been killed by these apps. after all, what was the point of a bar? people would go to the bar and have drinks. for many people the idea was to hook up or meet somebody. now there is this much more efficient thing. you can sit at home, you can swipe, swipe, swipe. it feels like you re sort of doing something digitally and efficiently that was once done in this more analog, laborious, inefficient way. now there is more efficiency with this situation. people can be much more targeted with what they re looking for and this much bigger sweep of people with which to
it does seem to be a very important transition. there s this article in i think it was new york magazine which pointed out the downtown bar scene has been killed by these apps. after all, what was the point of a bar? people would go to a bar or have drinks, for many people the idea was to hook up or meet somebody. there s now a more efficient thing. si at home, swipe, swipe, swipe. it feels like you are sort of doing something digitally and efficiently that was once done in the more analog, inefficient way. there was some charm to that way of doing things. there was charm and there was frustration. i think the feeling is now people can be much more targeted with what they re looking for. there s a bigger sweep of people through which to sort of go. do we have a better self that we can project through texting than we really are?