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10 Reasons Dating Apps Are Screwing You

You hate it. You need it. That tension is the whole story.

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Adam Cunningham
Jan 31, 2026
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Today: Dating apps digitised dating, turned desire into a measurable signal and then sold access to attention. The apps don’t just frustrate people; they produce disappointment, gendered imbalance, ghosting, and low trust as standard outputs, while queer users often stay because for them the app isn’t a vice, it’s required infrastructure.

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