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How Dating Apps Change Your Ability to Connect in Person

My dating app conversations are getting more and more abstract and I can't remember how to flirt or be playful with actual humans.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mediated romantic interaction can atrophy the spontaneous social skills needed for unscripted intimate connection.

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