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Dating apps once promised to be the Internet's shot at love.
But now it seems young people are starting to ghost them, at least in the US Are we witnessing the end of the romance between dating apps and the digital natives?
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Coming to you live from Beijing, this is Roundtable.
I'm He Young.
For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Xun in the studio.
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Well, for Generation Z, Those born between 1996 and 2010, they grew up with the Internet at their fingertips.
Dating apps were supposed to be a shortcut to romance.
Except now American Gen Z reportedly is feeling dating apps are more like a social experiment gone wrong.
Studies show young Americans are ditching the swipe life in favor for real life connections.
But is this just a US thing?
In China, dating apps are still booming.
What does this mean for the future of online dating?
So, guys, let's go to the west first and see what's going on over there in a few countries.
Online dating has been around in some countries for decades.
And what's happening now?
I remember seeing the advertisements for the initial online dating company, if not the very first one, then one of the first ones called match.com and yeah, I would see these advertisements and the advertisements always looked really cheesy and it was something that people were not really open to accepting at the time, especially in the west.