Divai Brown, a year-old lawyer from the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, has lived in Dublin for about 15 months, working in financial regulations, and loves it. She points to a few factors that have made it difficult, including being a high-achieving Black woman with a well-paying job, which has intimidated some men. Until recently, she was on Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble. Of nearly a dozen women interviewed, many said they were reclaiming the time they had spent in the cold winter months swiping through dating apps by prioritizing real-life encounters, and focusing on having fun.
Dating apps off for summer Brown recently decided to take her dating life off the apps this summer and will be doing the things she loves, like going to food and wine festivals, or on hikes.
Moinzadeh, a year-old Brooklyn resident, has been on dating apps for almost 10 years, after first downloading Tinder in Tinder and Hinge were the two she used most recently, but she deleted them both in March after her frustrations began to mount.
She added that she had never had a long-term relationship that resulted from online dating. For Vinessa Burnett, a human resources program manager in Dallas, her no-dating-app summer actually began in January after she read an article about hope fatigue among long-term dating app users and was inspired to go off them for an entire year.
Dating in real life Since January, Burnett, 28, has been keeping track of her offline dates and has been on dates with four men, including one she met at a networking event. She said that being mostly off the apps had also changed her preferences, which has been a plus.
