Ep. 3: Your Presence Tastes Like Absence, Part 1

17/06/2024 8 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3
Ep. 3:  Your Presence Tastes Like Absence, Part 1

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Dating apps are built on a business model that ushers users through a revolving door of disgust and desire.  Hopeful romantics ping reliably between two poles: “That’s it, I quit” and “Oh god, the crushing loneliness.”  Users are jaded and tired.  Dating apps, once exciting and fun, are scrambling to save themselves from drowning in all the meh.  I think it’s all connected to a broader crisis we’re experiencing in how we relate to being present these days:  we don’t want to miss out on anything, but we don’t really want to show up for it either.