{"id":85769,"date":"2025-08-15T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85769\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:17:10","slug":"its-time-to-delete-tinder-heres-the-real-reason-why-dating-apps-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85769\/","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":85770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[15472,9626,46165,165,59289,74,15473],"class_list":["post-85769","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}