Single Millennials Have Swipe Fatigue—These 3 Apps Want to Help

Single Millennials Have Swipe Fatigue—These 3 Apps Want to Help

It’s not exactly a secret that dating app use among millennials is super common: we use our phones for everything else, so it makes sense that we’d use an app to find a partner or hookup, too. That being said, not all dating apps are created equal, and some are more popular than others — but which one takes the top spot? According to a new survey of singles from Piper Jaffray, Tinder is the most popular dating app among single millennials: 27 percent of millennial respondents said they use Tinder , as opposed to only 12 percent who said they use runner-up Bumble, Yahoo Finance reports.

I’m A Millennial Who’s Never Used A Dating App. Here’s What I’ve Learned. I’ve found that when you’re having fun and being % authentic.

In all of modern human history, it would be difficult to find a group of adults more serendipitously insulated from contact with strangers than the Millennials. In , two years before the oldest Millennials were born, the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz while he was walking to a school-bus stop by himself gave rise to the popular parenting philosophy that children should be taught never to talk to strangers.

Seamless and food-delivery apps like it, which took most of the interactions with strangers out of ordering takeout food from restaurants, emerged in the mids. Today, Seamless entices new customers in New York City with ads in subway cars that emphasize that by using the service, you can get restaurant-quality meals without having to talk to anyone. Smartphones, introduced in the late s, helped fill the bored, aimless downtime or waiting-around time that might induce strangers to strike up a conversation.

And in , when the oldest Millennials were in their early 30s, Tinder became available to smartphone users everywhere. Suddenly dates too or sex, or phone sex could be set up without so much as a single spoken word between two people who had never met. In the years since, app dating has reached such a level of ubiquity that a couples therapist in New York told me last year that he no longer even bothers asking couples below a certain age threshold how they met.

And less chatting with strangers means less flirting with strangers. The weirdly stranger-free dating world that Millennials have created provides the backdrop for a new book titled, revealingly, The Offline Dating Method.