Lauren Noble, 33, from Atlanta, quit using dating apps after a bad Bumble experience in October 2022.

“A guy got really handy with me and demanded I go home with him because he bought me dinner,” she remembers. “It turned me off from swiping entirely.”

The apps also felt “vapid,” she said.

“You don’t have enough in common, or you don’t really have enough to go off (of) based on just what someone looks like on an app,” she said. “It’s not enough characters. You can’t know somebody from a tweet.”

Reed Stewart, 27, from Sandy Springs, agrees.

“The apps are just focused on appearance and a couple of quick tidbits,” he said. “The doom swiping is bad. … It’s not super healthy, and I just hate small talk. … I like to get straight to the deep stuff, and it’s really hard to do that online.”

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