Close up of young woman checking social media network on smartphone on the go in the city. Mobile phone with heart emoji speech bubble message on the screen. People engaging in networking with ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; We Are / DigitalVision / Getty Images When Mimi*, 22, was in college, she created a fake profile on the dating app Hinge to report another phony account.

In 2025, dating app fatigue is real, and frankly, who can blame daters? Popular apps are starting to look (and function) more and more like copies of each other and adding more and more AI features.

Move over, ghosting. Flaking is the newly preferred method of cutting ties with a match on dating apps, with victims calling it a "flaking epidemic". Gone are the days when you might start a ...

Opening a dating app for the first time can feel awkward. There’s a bit of excitement, but also that small voice in the head ...

Calls to ban Tea Dating Advice, a women-only online dating safety app where users can share stories and information about men they dated, have exploded in recent weeks, driven by fears that ...

Every now and then, a certain chart goes viral. Based on an ongoing research project, it tells a simple and shocking story about how American couples meet in the age of the smartphone: This data is ...

Is it possible to find true love on an app? Many young people seem to think so, as 53% of 18- to 29-year-olds report having used a dating site or app at some point in their lives, according to the Pew ...