I remember meeting someone off of an app or a chat room. "I'm in that generation of, I was born before the internet.
The discussion participants asked not to use their last names because of privacy concerns. To get a clearer picture of what today's singles are up against, ABC News' Alex Perez sat down with four single people – CeeJaye, Alex, Kara and JT. In the U.S., 3 in 10 adults say they have used a dating site or app, and 1 in 10 partnered adults say they met their current significant other through a dating site or app, according to a 2022 Pew Research survey.īut some millennials are ditching dating app culture in favor of returning to what is known in internet speak as IRL, or "in real life."
More than a decade since the launch of dating apps, they have become unavoidable players in the modern dating game.