Link to presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SZuH_E3gKD8UKHF_ltWv-nUmrU0QpBwQZ3uM9M199QA/edit?usp=sharing

For my studio and seminar topic, I have explored and did research on a very popular activity in our generation — online dating with apps like tinder and bumble etc.. In studio I took some portraits of people and interviewed their experience on online dating and in my seminar paper I did a lot of extensive research on the origins and history of this online dating. In my research paper I have explored the questions of ‘Are online dating systems healthy for social interaction?’ and ‘How has online dating evolved that it negatively impacts your personal life?’. I personally did this experiment on myself too, I got these dating apps and without any bias opinion studied closely the human interactions on the apps. It was different from what people in real life would do, it was different in a bad way. It made people more shallow and in a way self obsessed.

Online dating apps negatively affect one’s social interactions (the way they communicate with one another, their behavior in how they treat potential partners and their self esteem)  because the way they’re structured lead users to become more focused on surface level characteristics rather than their deeper interests and true compatibility.

What truly causes damage is that people on these apps become very shallow, we have a tendency to be judgemental. The apps take away so much of your time in a day because it’s addictive, it is a negative impact to our lives because not only does it affect your ego, self worth and confidence, it also interfere with your daily routine, causing you to procrastinate.