Monetization is a problem. Early on apps like tinder and even some dating websites worked, but at some point the incentives to keep people isolated and single w

Monetization is a problem. Early on apps like tinder and even some dating websites worked, but at some point the incentives to keep people isolated and single win out. If the app works, people stop using it. Similar to how engagement works on most social media, it isolates and makes people more hostile rather than fulfilling the need that brought the user there in the first place. Should call it anti-social media. Economics ensure that the problem is never to be solved by any technology platform that attempts to. Maybe if the government builds their own non-monitized apps, that might work. But, security is hard, given great power competition, government funded dating apps would have difficulty on that front. Inject a lot of fake profiles and you could collapse birth rates. I sometimes wonder if that isn’t the point of TikTok, an app that decreases birth rates in a subtle and indirect way.