Dating in 2025 for different people (mainly Americans)
All across America, people are expressing growing frustration with dating apps—many even saying they’re done with them altogether
Dating and intimacy worries
We’re lonelier than ever — and there’s one big reason | Arthur Brooks
Thanks to modern-day social media, it’s easier than ever to connect with the people you care about. But is this really the case? Professor Arthur Brooks discusses how social media is actually harming our ability to socialize, and proposes a way to fix it.
Oxytocin, the bonding neuropeptide in our brains, needs eye contact and touch—things we don’t get from Zoom or social media. This lack leaves us feeling hungrier for connection, which only fuels the loneliness epidemic, and causes us to further distance ourselves from others.
The Truth About Dating — Are Dating Apps Dead? | UNTOLD: The Real Dating Experiment | Channel 4 Docs
Channel 4 doc, about online dating and the trend heading to in real life dating
The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century | Derek Thompson
“You can debate all sorts of things about how the texture of American life has changed. What you can't debate is the sheer, objective, existential fact that Americans are more alone than ever.”
After hundreds of complaints, eHarmony’s auto renewal subscription case begins in Australian federal court
Opinion | Progressives Are Driving Themselves Into Extinction
Why Dating Apps Finally Died
The businesses behind the biggest dating apps has gotten so greedy that they've ruined them. How dating apps contribute to the demographic crisis. These companies, instead of trying to find you the right date are instead focused on appeasing shareholders, trying to bring in record revenue. Turns out, the more you try to profit off your users, the worse the dating environment becomes. OMG!!! Who would have thought?!?
Tired of Dating Apps, Some Turn to ‘Date-Me Docs’
Writers of the online text profiles, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore, hope for a more meaningful connection than a swipe might allow.
Did The Internet & Dating Apps Really Ruin Dating?
Did online dating and dating apps really ruin dating for all of us? And are dating cheating AI apps making things even worse? Let's unpack what's really going on...
Artificial Intimacy | Columbia University Press
How do people REALLY meet these days? | Love & Dating in Europe
DW on how people datte in 2025
Ronny Chieng Wants You to Break Up With Your AI Girlfriend | The Daily Show
Funny light piece from the Daily Show about AI girlfriends
Young men are struggling. What does this mean for young women? | BBC Global
Good interview with Scott Galloway about masculinity
Japan's population shrinking as marriage and birth rates plummet | 60 Minutes
Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country’s economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.
Burned Haystack Dating Method™ Critical Discourse Analysis of Successful Dating Profiles:
The Burned Haystack Method is a dating strategy that encourages users to actively block profiles that don't meet their standards, making it easier to find suitable matches. This approach focuses on being selective and efficient in online dating, reducing time spent on unproductive interactions.
Burned Haystack Dating Method™ Critical Discourse Analysis of Successful Dating Profiles:
Black Mirror 4x04 "Hang the DJ"
Paired up by a dating program that puts an expiration date on all relationships, Frank and Amy soon begin to question the system's logic.
Tinder Introduces AI-Powered Flirting Game in Partnership with OpenAI
Tinder has launched a new AI-powered game, The Game Game, designed to help users refine their conversation skills in a simulated dating scenario. The game, created in collaboration with OpenAI, features a voice-based chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to mimic real-life conversations.
The Psychology of Modern Men and The Relationship Recession
explore the cultural shifts and challenges that are fueling the “relationship recession.” Drawing inspiration from the Netflix series Adolescence, we’ll dive into the disillusionment many men are facing, the frustrations women are experiencing, and the hidden dynamics making connection feel so elusive.
Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
The AI relationship revolution is already here
Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
Section where the hosts create a dating profile with AI and A/B test it
Breeze - The dating app for real dates.
Doctors in UK town prescribe mingling to fight depression | Focus on Europe
Community and connecting with others being prescribed in the UK
How I hacked online dating | Amy Webb
Are dating apps effective? 6 Minute English
BBC on how effective dating apps are?
Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s hikikomori men out of their bedrooms - BBC News
Rental system to help mainly with men and loneiness in Japan
‘It’s not you, it’s dating’: Where is modern love going wrong?
A 2023 YouGov survey has found that almost half (46%) of Brits say their dating app experiences have been bad.
Dating Apps Really Have Gotten Worse. They're Trying To Change.
Opinion | Dating Apps Like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble Are Getting Worse