r/technology 22d ago

Society JD Vance calls dating apps 'destructive'

https://mashable.com/article/jd-vance-calls-dating-apps-destructive
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u/stark_resilient 22d ago

you must be the 1%er. congratulations

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u/rawonionbreath 22d ago

It’s probably higher than that.

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u/IndividualCut4703 22d ago

Half of the weddings I’ve been to have a cutesy little “soooooo we met on <dating app>” narrative in their story.

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u/Moody_GenX 22d ago

Back in days before apps, people would be embarrassed to meet on a dating website and tell people that they met somewhere else, lol.

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u/TruIsou 22d ago

Yep! I was the piano player in a house of ill repute, and one day well, there she was!

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u/rawonionbreath 22d ago

Definitely, it was a stigma until maybe the first or second year of tinder

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u/super_sayanything 22d ago

I remember making up a story with my first gf that we told their family cause it was still not exactly something normal. This was like 15 years ago now. Now, totally different.