Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos feels that there is a crisis of loneliness for Gen Z in dating
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One thing that is,
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uh, acutely different with this
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generation is they are experiencing a
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crisis of loneliness. Uh, they grew up
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during a pandemic, their peak dating
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years in their late teens and early 20s,
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they didn't experience that. They were
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in lockdown. And those are years for
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figuring out who you are, what you like,
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who you want to be with, how to flirt,
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kind of all of that. So, without that,
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you know, paired with the fact that
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they're spending a thousand less hours
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in person with others than two decades
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before them of the same age. That's two
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plus hours per day spent literally on a
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phone, most likely, in isolation. So,
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the core ability to walk up to a
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stranger and say hi, you know, that
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confidence and that resilience to work
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your way through that just doesn't
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really exist.
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The current generation is facing a significant crisis of loneliness, largely attributed to the impact of the pandemic on their formative social years and a drastic decrease in in-person social interactions compared to previous generations.