More than a decade since their launch, dating apps like Tinder have become unavoidable players in the modern dating game.
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But some millennials are ditching dating app culture in favor of returning to what is known in internet speak as IRL, or "in real life." "I came from a small town where it's not the safest to be like going up to strangers and be like, 'You're hot, let's go out,'" Alex, 30, said. "The incentive for these apps are just for people to be on them a lot. So they're not necessarily having their incentives align with people having better mental health, performing long-term, deep relationships," Turban said.MORE: Search for love takes 1 woman on 34 first dates in 19 countries
"They're very disconnected. All you're doing is like looking at people's pictures and judging them, and that was not what I was looking for. I was like looking to just like, talk and connect with people," Conway said.
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