The Gamification of Online Dating
Love as game. Love as screen time. Love as digital let down.
I have been on and off dating apps since I was 22. I initially got on them when I moved to Chicago for my first grad school. I didn’t know many people, and thought it would be fun to try online dating, which was still fairly new at the time. I didn’t have a smart phone and there weren’t apps yet, so I joined OkCupid via their website.
The years I live…