Popular Culture Review Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2019 | Page 119

Popular Culture Review 30.2
Figure 3 . Overall Dating Experience
THE EXPERIMENT
As I sat alone in my New York apartment on rainy Sunday afternoon , this experiment began with a seemingly simple question : in what ways was the latest craze of app-based dating impacting the overall quality of human communication and relationships ? And then I thought more specifically about a swipe-style dating app like Tinder and whether or not it was realistically possible that it could offer something more substantial than the ease of casual sex .
110