Dating apps like Tindr, Bumble, Hinge haven’t shaped modern relationships – it’s the other way round
https://scroll.in/article/956335/dating-apps-havent-shaped-modern-relationships-its-the-other-way-round
Anthropologist Daniel Miller and his colleagues addressed this point in their 2016 study, How the World Changed Social Media, which looked at social media use in nine different locations around the world. Unsurprisingly, it found different cultural contexts led to completely different uses of social media. The apps didn’t alter how people were behaving but rather people changed and repurposed the way the platforms worked for them.

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