{"id":1187,"date":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/is-the-swipe-era-over\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:21:02","slug":"is-the-swipe-era-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/is-the-swipe-era-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Swipe Era Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In 2012, Tinder revolutionized dating apps with its swipe feature. With the flick of a finger, singles could accept or reject a potential mate. While this innovation has worked for many, some have grown weary of the simple swipe, and long for a more nuanced way to find love.<\/p>\n<p>Today on \u201cThe Sunday Daily,\u201d Rachel Abrams examines two dating tends on the rise: in-person mixers that are far from old-fashioned, and emerging A.I. technology that promises singles a \u2018soul\u2019 match. Rachel speaks with The New York Times\u2019s dating columnist Gina Cherelus; Luke Vander Ploeg, a producer on the \u201cDaily\u201d; and Amanda Hess, a writer at large at The Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Today\u2019s Episode<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/gina-cherelus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gina Cherelus<\/strong><\/a> covers dating for The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/luke-vander-ploeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Luke Vander Ploeg<\/strong><\/a> is a producer on The Daily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/amanda-hess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Amanda Hess<\/strong><\/a> is a writer at large for The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mila De La Torre for The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>For more information on today\u2019s episode, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nytimes.com\/thedaily<\/a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe today at <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/podcasts\">nytimes.com\/podcasts<\/a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/activate-access\/audio?source=podcatcher\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/activate-access\/audio?source=podcatcher<\/a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com\/app.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href=\"https:\/\/pcm.adswizz.com\/\">pcm.adswizz.com<\/a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Tinder revolutionized dating apps with its swipe feature. With the flick of a finger, singles could accept or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pod-casts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}