August 30, 2024 / Last updated : September 4, 2025 Pre-Dating General

The Seattle Times: Dating IRL – Seattle’s creative, in-person dating events are booming in a post-lockdown world filled with dating app fatigue

(Jennifer Luxton / The Seattle Times) Aug. 30, 2024 By Sarah-Mae McCullough, Seattle Times features producer Seattleite Jamie Matthews went on 32 first dates in 2022. The majority of them 一 80% 一 came from apps like Tinder and Hinge, he said in a TikTok video recapping his dating life, with just 7% resulting from in-person meet-cutes. […]
March 27, 2024 / Last updated : September 4, 2025 Pre-Dating General

A federal class action lawsuit against Match, parent company of Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid claims apps gamify dating, encourage compulsive use, turn users into “addicts” locked in a search for rewards made elusive on purpose.

Another article, this time focused on the lawsuit, that shows us more than a decade after the promise that apps would offer us the easy way to meet a great person, singles are simply overwhelmed by apps and underwhelmed by the opportunities they’ve brought to us. Do yourself a favor and try an in-person event, […]
March 9, 2024 / Last updated : September 4, 2025 Pre-Dating General

Online dating has had the side effect of creating A dangerous landscape. Scammers, Blackmailers, and Catfishing are all repercussions of online dating

Here at Pre-dating we have had countless testimony of people being scammed, deceived, and heartbroken using online apps and sites. Online dating allows people to do things that would normally not be possible in person. You can never truly know or trust someone through online dating. Here at Pre-Dating we are adamantly aware of these […]
March 6, 2024 / Last updated : September 4, 2025 Pre-Dating General

Washington Post: A surge of scams, fake AI-generated profiles and harassment making dating apps increasingly unfriendly to users. 4 in 10 users have encountered a scam on a dating app, 2 in 10 have fallen for one, according to Kaspersky

From the Washington Post | By Tatum Hunter March 6, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Dating apps have gotten so bad that speed dating is in againDrowning in dating app fatigue, singles are reviving the analog practice of showing up and talking to strangers SAN FRANCISCO — Seven men and six women sit scattered around […]