{"id":22929,"date":"2026-05-02T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/sick-of-swiping-the-dating-event-where-your-mates-do-the-talking\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:37:58","slug":"sick-of-swiping-the-dating-event-where-your-mates-do-the-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/sick-of-swiping-the-dating-event-where-your-mates-do-the-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sick of swiping\u2019: the dating event where your mates do the talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Date My Mate\u2019 nights, which involve pitching a friend to a room of singles, are gaining momentum across the country<\/p>\n<p>For many young people, the dating game has been nothing but a thankless task of endless swiping and ghosting, with little hope of finding love.<\/p>\n<p>But as dating apps fall out of favour, and a relationship recession looms, young singles have discovered a new way to revive the dating scene: talking up their pals to strangers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/may\/02\/date-my-mate-event-talking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/91e879dc11048ed6fe8847af574e4f1851b770d2\/1442_1_5171_4136\/master\/5171.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e55191e09884e3b9c5d4491d7dd9ab00\" title=\"\u2018Sick of swiping\u2019: the dating event where your mates do the talking\" \/>\u2018Date My Mate\u2019 nights, which involve pitching a friend to a room of singles, are gaining momentum across the country<br \/>\nFor many young people, the dating game has been nothing but a thankless task of endless swiping and ghosting, with little hope of finding love.<br \/>\nBut as dating apps fall out of favour, and a relationship recession looms, young singles have discovered a new way to revive the dating scene: talking up their pals to strangers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Date My Mate\u2019 nights, which involve pitching a friend to a room of singles, are gaining momentum across the country For many young people, the dating game has been nothing but a thankless task of endless swiping and ghosting, with little hope of finding love. But as dating apps fall out of favour, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/sick-of-swiping-the-dating-event-where-your-mates-do-the-talking\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Sick of swiping\u2019: the dating event where your mates do the talking<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}