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☆ Opinion | Dating on Apps, and the Old-Fashioned Way
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “It’s Not You: Dating Apps Are Getting Worse,” by Magdalene J. Taylor (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, March 16):With more people on online dating platforms than ever, we have entered a new era rife with hot takes and opinions based on a narrow set of experiences. Recent surveys say that dating apps are the No. 1 way people meet today, and nearly 70 percent of individuals who met someone on a dating app said it led to a romantic, exclusive relationship. I am not here to question individual experiences, or pretend that every date will lead to success. There’s this false notion suggesting that dating apps don’t work.

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☆ Dating Apps Like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble Are Getting Worse - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Magdalene J. Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As we waited for our drinks, she and another friend swiped through Bumble and Hinge, hunting for new faces and likes. Across the bar were two young men: phones out, apps open, clearly doing the exact same thing. What’s lamentable here isn’t only that dating apps have become the de facto medium through which single people meet. Or maybe the apps have functionally, intentionally gotten worse, as have our romantic prospects.

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☆ ‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Magdalene J. Taylor | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

‘DROID RAGE Some parents say kids face a lot of peer pressure to buy iPhones. Photo: Getty ImagesDEB HARRISON lives in a house divided. The mom of teenagers, based in Hudson Valley, N.Y., says her children agree on a lot, but they cannot seem to get on the same page about their cellphones. Her youngest, Kira, 15 years old, has an Apple iPhone 11, because that’s what all her friends have. She didn’t want to be “the odd one out,” said Harrison.

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☆ 11 Movies and TV Shows That’ll Make You Nostalgic for Bygone Gadgets
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Magdalene J. Taylor | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

THERE ARE FEW BETTER WAYS to detect the decade in which a film or TV show was made than through its characters’ use of technology. Does the villain connive via a computer that displays only 72-point green type? ‘Desk Set,’ 1957In the eighth film Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy made together, Ms. Hepburn plays a TV network’s invincibly knowledgeable research librarian. Later, EMERAC goofs up royally, printing pink slips laying off everyone in the company. For some reason, this bleak view of early computing was sponsored in part by IBM.

☆ The Year of the Voice Message: A Modern Guide to Phone Etiquette
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Magdalene J. Taylor | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

NATHAN HEINRICH, 41 years old, feels totally disconnected from his younger sister. In fact, the writer and designer from West Nyack, N.Y, says they’re in touch plenty. The problem: This year, she suddenly started communicating exclusively through recorded voice messages, colloquially called voice notes or voice memos, a feature that’s been available on Apple ’s iMessage since June 2014. His sister, Hilary Heinrich, a busy 32-year-old teacher in San Luis Obispo, Calif., says the technology nicely combines aspects of both phone calls and texts. Mr. Heinrich, however, finds that having to respond to her voice notes in kind makes him feel like a trucker on a CB radio.

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