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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jem Bartholomew

‘Some men tend to jump straight to innuendoes’: dating app users on why they quit

Closeup of a woman holding a phone while using a dating app
Some people said they had grown tired of being ‘ghosted’, while others said they had missed catching the eye of someone in ‘the real world’. Photograph: oatawa/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The rise of dating apps in the last decade has changed the way people forge relationships, with Pew research conducted in 2022 finding that 53% of US adults under 30 had used online dating.

But dating apps have caused dissatisfaction and despair among many users, as Pew found 46% of all users (and 51% of women) had a negative experience of online dating.

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