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Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos feels that there is a crisis of loneliness for Gen Z in dating

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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.

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