{"id":68522,"date":"2025-08-15T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:09:06","slug":"its-time-to-delete-tinder-heres-the-real-reason-why-dating-apps-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68522\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to delete Tinder: Here&#8217;s the real reason why dating apps are dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I tell people that, despite being single, I\u2019ve never been on a dating app, they tend to assume I\u2019m lying. Or worse, I\u2019m smug. But the truth is far less flattering \u2014 a mix of self-doubt, cowardice, and the fear of being judged by strangers on a handful of curated photos, some basic personal information and some quippy one-liners. Personally, I\u2019ve always found the whole thing to feel transactional, like ordering sex and intimacy off a menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every time I tell people that, despite being single, I\u2019ve never been on a dating app, they tend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32788,21465,33213,2306,35806,86,35805,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-bumble","tag-dating-apps","tag-hinge","tag-mobile","tag-profile","tag-technology","tag-tinder","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}