For LGBT millennials, online dating apps are a blessing and a curse
In today’s app-happy world, finding love is as easy citas calientes sin gluten as the swipe of a finger. Conditioned to socialize online as young adults, these 18 to 34 year olds are now taking the same approach to finding partners.
In 2013, The New York Times decried the so-called “end of courtship” brought on by social media, blaming younger Americans for a distinct decrease in people “picking up the telephone and asking someone on a date,” an act that in the past “required courage, strategic planning, and a considerable investment of ego.” While dating apps may be changing the way potential lovers communicate, the Times’s piece overlooked a huge community that has in many ways benefited from the rise of digital dating-the LGBT community. (suite…)