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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Polly Hudson

A dating app that lets random strangers match users? Sign me up!

A woman looking excitedly at a laptop screen
Matchmaking can be a thankless task – but someone’s got to do it. Photograph: Cavan Images/Getty Images/Cavan Images RF

Sometimes it’s extremely hard to mind your own business. However, we all know that ideally we should, and most of us give it a bloody good go. So when the universe rewards us with an opportunity to do the opposite, it must be grabbed with both hands and cherished like the precious gift it is.

New dating app Rivet lets a random group of volunteers pick users’ matches, AKA gives interfering busybodies who think they know best free rein over strangers’ love lives. I mean, where do I sign up? This is the chance frustrated matchmakers like me have been waiting for, once their supply of single friends has been exhausted (in both senses).

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