Dating Apocalypse Thesis

In the article, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”’, Nancy Jo Sales takes a closer look on modern day monogamy and the impact that dating has had on courtship. Nancy Jo Sales claims, “Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with dating apps, which have acted like a wayward meteor on the now dinosaur-like rituals of courtship”. Nancy Jo Sales claim broken down is simply setting forth the notion that dating apps have changed what is now considered a monogamous relationship. Nancy Jo Sales claim that dating apps are causing monogamy to become a thing of the past is an implicit premise. Amanda a senior at Boston College validates Sales’ claim, “There is no dating. There’s no relationships…
Winston describes a personal experience using Tinder in which he met an Estonian girl. Tinder is responsible for it all. He notes that one person’s experience cannot change the misconstrued theory that Tinder is nothing more than an app that is “ruining not just monogamy but dating itself”. Winston addresses Sales Vanity Fair’s piece stating that her article was nothing more than “man-on-the-street-style interviews” looking for users who specifically used the app to find partners to having meaningless sex with. Supporting the idea that ninety nine percent of the time users on Tinder are only looking for a quick hookup, and not a monogamous relationship. Winston continues to criticize Nancy Jo Sales’ piece, pointing out Sales never addresses two important components. The first, being what was dating before the creation of online dating sites and the second, being what dating is like now. He rebuts any idea that Sales piece held any truth because her interviews were of young adults who specifically used Tinder the app that has the reputation for being a “hookup app” for sex. Winston later in the piece declares why Tinder became so popular and it is not because it provides an easy access to potential partners to engage in meaningless hookups but because unlike previous dating websites and apps Tinder only allows users to
She fails to include any examples of serious monogamous relationships that happened because of the use of dating apps more specifically Tinder. Every person interviewed had used Tinder with the sole intention of hooking up. Which leaves me questioning is Tinder really to blame for meaningless sex becoming more and more socially acceptable. After reading the article “You’re 100% Wrong About Tinder”, Nancy Jo Sales claim seemed less of a fact but more of an opinion. Of course, if your intentions for the app are to find someone to hook up with you’re going to find someone, there are millions of users on Tinder but not all users are on Tinder with the intention of finding someone to have a quick and meaningless hookup with. In the article “Inside The Hookup Factory”, Tinder’s capability of producing long-term monogamous relationships was acknowledged however in Sales’ piece it was not. It was overlooked as Nancy Jo Sales gave the notion that because of dating apps such as Tinder sex has become easy, and dating is becoming a thing of the