{"id":6795,"date":"2022-08-24T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/dating-apps-promises-exceed-reality-and-yet-we-wait-for-the-next-swipe-right-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T05:37:41","slug":"dating-apps-promises-exceed-reality-and-yet-we-wait-for-the-next-swipe-right-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/dating-apps-promises-exceed-reality-and-yet-we-wait-for-the-next-swipe-right-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating apps\u2019 promises exceed reality \u2013 and yet we wait for the next swipe right | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vicky Littler<\/strong> and <strong>Anthony Weir<\/strong> respond to articles in the Guardian series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/series\/swipe-right--the-decade-that-changed-dating\">Swipe right: the decade that changed dating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Gatsby\u2019s endless examination of Daisy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/may\/03\/what-makes-great-gatsby\" title=\"\">green light<\/a> across the bay, the singleton\u2019s incessant search for \u201cideal\u201d remains always out of reach (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/15\/dating-app-tinder-online-meeting-people\" title=\"\">I\u2019m a dating app evangelist \u2013 but even I\u2019m not on Tinder any more, 15 August<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/16\/dating-apps-love-lives-hell-tinder-decade\" title=\"\">Dating apps have made our love lives hell. Why do we keep using them?, 16 August<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The promise exceeds what reality will deliver: the facade of beauty, wit and chemistry conjured through our screens belies doctored images, unrepentant creeps and bores. The collective romantic subconscious, carefully curated by Disney and Richard Curtis, cannot survive its collision with reality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/aug\/23\/dating-apps-promises-exceed-reality-and-yet-we-wait-for-the-next-swipe-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/04a5968856af0e59f7f230b9a0224ba9f86f40ca\/347_213_2959_1778\/master\/2959.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c9d435ca8edf0746730ad5626e8dcc6a\" title=\"Dating apps\u2019 promises exceed reality \u2013 and yet we wait for the next swipe right | Letters\" \/>Vicky Littler and Anthony Weir respond to articles in the Guardian series Swipe right: the decade that changed dating<br \/>\nLike Gatsby\u2019s endless examination of Daisy\u2019s green light across the bay, the singleton\u2019s incessant search for \u201cideal\u201d remains always out of reach (I\u2019m a dating app evangelist \u2013 but even I\u2019m not on Tinder any more, 15 August; Dating apps have made our love lives hell. Why do we keep using them?, 16 August).<br \/>\nThe promise exceeds what reality will deliver: the facade of beauty, wit and chemistry conjured through our screens belies doctored images, unrepentant creeps and bores. The collective romantic subconscious, carefully curated by Disney and Richard Curtis, cannot survive its collision with reality. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky Littler and Anthony Weir respond to articles in the Guardian series Swipe right: the decade that changed dating Like Gatsby\u2019s endless examination of Daisy\u2019s green light across the bay, the singleton\u2019s incessant search for \u201cideal\u201d remains always out of reach (I\u2019m a dating app evangelist \u2013 but even I\u2019m not on Tinder any more, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/dating-apps-promises-exceed-reality-and-yet-we-wait-for-the-next-swipe-right-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dating apps\u2019 promises exceed reality \u2013 and yet we wait for the next swipe right | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6796,"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\/6795"}],"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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}