Read a few in depth/more academic pieces on dating apps and a book called Rethinking Sex, by Christine Emba, last year,----these are all valid points. which are fleshed out way further in what I read, but this isn't off point at all.
The book had a chapter on dating apps, that laid all that out with reporting, interviews, research. Just the slot machine concept is borne out in research abut social media, the idea of intermittent reward theory, dopamine hits, starts to feel better than the relative awkwardness of meeting up with near strangers.
And, this is just me talking now, this doesn't really bother ME like that, but for a lot of people, in a relationship, or like in the stages of that structure, the threat of someone just pulling out a phone and having a date/hook up/ that night can't be a good feeling. There's always people in our spheres, but that's like calling an escort, but legit.
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