{"id":4169,"date":"2021-12-28T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/apps-promised-a-sexual-revolution-but-they-have-just-made-dating-weird-rachel-connolly\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T11:39:43","slug":"apps-promised-a-sexual-revolution-but-they-have-just-made-dating-weird-rachel-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/apps-promised-a-sexual-revolution-but-they-have-just-made-dating-weird-rachel-connolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps promised a sexual revolution but they have just made dating weird  | Rachel Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book suggests that, for single people, technology has made dating a strange, isolated experience<\/p>\n<p>One feature of online dating that makes it a recurring pub-discussion topic among my friends is the propensity for the people involved to do strange things. A whole new spectrum of dating behaviour has evolved on \u201cthe apps\u201d. Habits that, while now common, are still odd things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Someone might seem very interested but then \u201cghost\u201d or \u201corbit\u201d (which means they stop replying to messages but still engage with your social media content, liking your posts and photos); or tell obvious but seemingly unnecessary lies; another person might read \u201cthe riot act\u201d on a first date, sternly laying down their terms for how the relationship should progress; and there are endless stories about dates reacting bizarrely, even menacingly, if rejected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/28\/dating-apps-sexual-revolution-single-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa8582feca56ffd09df5fd00d00da2b36dcebf2e\/0_175_5663_3399\/master\/5663.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ba7ace209340fb26b873f0b0c4a659e5\" title=\"Apps promised a sexual revolution but they have just made dating weird  | Rachel Connolly\" \/>A new book suggests that, for single people, technology has made dating a strange, isolated experience<br \/>\nOne feature of online dating that makes it a recurring pub-discussion topic among my friends is the propensity for the people involved to do strange things. A whole new spectrum of dating behaviour has evolved on \u201cthe apps\u201d. Habits that, while now common, are still odd things to do.<br \/>\nSomeone might seem very interested but then \u201cghost\u201d or \u201corbit\u201d (which means they stop replying to messages but still engage with your social media content, liking your posts and photos); or tell obvious but seemingly unnecessary lies; another person might read \u201cthe riot act\u201d on a first date, sternly laying down their terms for how the relationship should progress; and there are endless stories about dates reacting bizarrely, even menacingly, if rejected. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book suggests that, for single people, technology has made dating a strange, isolated experience One feature of online dating that makes it a recurring pub-discussion topic among my friends is the propensity for the people involved to do strange things. A whole new spectrum of dating behaviour has evolved on \u201cthe apps\u201d. Habits &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/apps-promised-a-sexual-revolution-but-they-have-just-made-dating-weird-rachel-connolly\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apps promised a sexual revolution but they have just made dating weird  | Rachel Connolly<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4170,"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\/4169"}],"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=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}