You have to have sympathy for millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, because they've basically been speed-running the tech revolution since they were teenagers. They were the first cohort of young people to have cellphones, and most of them were in their twenties when the original iPhone came out, so they're true digital natives, as at home with apps as prior generations were with typewriters and rotary phones. But that familiarity has come at a cost: dating app burnout. If millennials were the first generation to swipe their way through their local singles, they were also the first generation to experience cuffing season on the apps, or be ghosted and haunted — heck, millennials practically wrote the modern dating app glossary because they experienced it first.
And now, unsurprisingly, they're experiencing fatigue with the conventional swipe-based approach to online dating. Millennials are tired of swiping through dozens of profiles each day; they're tired of having a million fleeting conversations that follow the same basic template, only to go nowhere; and they're actively looking for quality rather than quantity in their dating lives.
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