Experts predict that by 2040, 70% of couples will have met through a dating app, and at the moment 17% of married couples first met online. Whether that’s a future to look forward to or not remains to be seen, but our experiment went some way to showing what kind of interactions we might be losing.

The first issue we came across is that (unless it’s a couple snogging on the street) you can’t tell whether someone is single or not. This isn’t as much as a problem when swiping through Bumble, where it’s safe to assume that at least most people are single and looking for a relationship. Asking people who are trying to get on with their day whether they are single wasn’t only nerve-wracking, but also very time consuming, though at least we weren’t ghosted in real life.

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