{"id":5975,"date":"2022-06-11T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/11\/the-demise-of-the-dating-app-why-singles-are-swapping-online-matching-for-real-life-meetings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:35:59","slug":"the-demise-of-the-dating-app-why-singles-are-swapping-online-matching-for-real-life-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/11\/the-demise-of-the-dating-app-why-singles-are-swapping-online-matching-for-real-life-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"The demise of the dating app? Why singles are swapping online matching for real life meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The desire to meet a new partner remains undimmed. But they might be more easily found at a film club than on a phone screen<\/p>\n<p>It all started a year ago when, having been divorced for a while, I thought I might dip a toe in the dating world. I wasn\u2019t thrilled by the idea as it is not where I expected to be in my mid-50s. But, as a hopeful soul, it felt important to see if there was life after divorce.<\/p>\n<p>I was warned by friends that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/feb\/13\/how-online-dating-has-changed-the-way-we-fall-in-love\">dating online is not for the fainthearted<\/a>, but I\u2019m a naturally curious person and, as a podcaster on various forms of dating (<em>Later Dater<\/em>) and a love coach, I thought it was about time I ventured into a world that I spend a lot of time talking about with clients and interviewees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jun\/11\/the-demise-of-the-dating-app-why-singles-are-swapping-online-matching-for-real-life-meetings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/21ab9f7dda639e32e01eed0cb6cb90904e724c31\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=632f912b3bdcca985b954d279a42036a\" title=\"The demise of the dating app? Why singles are swapping online matching for real life meetings\" \/>The desire to meet a new partner remains undimmed. But they might be more easily found at a film club than on a phone screen<br \/>\nIt all started a year ago when, having been divorced for a while, I thought I might dip a toe in the dating world. I wasn\u2019t thrilled by the idea as it is not where I expected to be in my mid-50s. But, as a hopeful soul, it felt important to see if there was life after divorce.<br \/>\nI was warned by friends that dating online is not for the fainthearted, but I\u2019m a naturally curious person and, as a podcaster on various forms of dating (Later Dater) and a love coach, I thought it was about time I ventured into a world that I spend a lot of time talking about with clients and interviewees. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desire to meet a new partner remains undimmed. But they might be more easily found at a film club than on a phone screen It all started a year ago when, having been divorced for a while, I thought I might dip a toe in the dating world. I wasn\u2019t thrilled by the idea &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/11\/the-demise-of-the-dating-app-why-singles-are-swapping-online-matching-for-real-life-meetings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The demise of the dating app? Why singles are swapping online matching for real life meetings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5976,"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\/5975"}],"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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}