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Texting With Boys
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 10.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | gender, online dating, texting
Summary | The author loves how the digital age has changes dating enabling romantic interests to communicate mainly via text messages, despite the widespread opinion that cell phones have killed romance. However, many men prefer women to be good listeners in person and via text message and lose interest when women text them music and books recommendations.
Image Description | A GIF of the response being typed symbol known from messaging apps (speech bubble and ellipses).
Image Tags | gifs
I swiped right and got a life coach, not a life partner
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 6.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, online dating, smartphone, social media
Summary | The author of the article met a life coach/texting buddy on Tinder. They have now been texting each other for two years, and they have never met. Her life coach, a young Syrian man, regularly gives her tips about relaxation, meditation, and breathing. She likes the fact that her "therapist" is digitally accessible 24 hours a day.
Image Description | Illustration of a laptop and two hands touching each other
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s), keyboard
An app to stop a blazing row? No thanks...
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | online dating, addiction, threat, youth
Summary | There seems to be an app for everything nowadays, As if this generation of smartphone addicts needed to digitalize any more aspects of their lives. Our relationship were digitally invaded with Tinder ( a statistic says that 30% of people on there are married). Now there is even an app that monitors our emotional responses when fighting with our partner via a bracelet which functions as a stand-in robot counsellor.
Image Description | Alamy image of a fighting couple (woman verbally attacking man).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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