{"id":4489,"date":"2023-02-15T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:27:32","slug":"survey-with-dating-apps-we-doubt-them-but-dont-drop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2023\/02\/15\/survey-with-dating-apps-we-doubt-them-but-dont-drop-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: With dating apps, we doubt them but don&#8217;t drop them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Americans doubt dating apps are the best way to find a successful relationship and they certainly don\u2019t trust them \u2013 but they\u2019re apparently unwilling to give up on apps like Match, Tinder and Hinge in the search for their true soulmate.<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the takeaways from the latest Media &amp; Technology Survey designed by Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and conducted by Ipsos earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>For every one respondent who agreed that \u201cdating apps are the best way to find a successful relationship these days,\u201d almost three disagreed (15% vs. 39%).<\/p>\n<p>Further, respondents don\u2019t fully trust what they read and see on dating apps. More than 60% of respondents agree that \u201cmost people lie on dating apps,\u201d while only 4% disagree. Four times as many respondents agree than disagree that \u201cdating apps are filled with too many machines posing as real people (known as chatbots) to be trusted\u201d (39% vs. 11%).<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of artificial intelligence technology improving dating apps didn\u2019t seem to boost their confidence. Only one in six agreed that \u201cdating apps that use AI, meaning computer-powered artificial intelligence, will lead to more successful relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet three times as many respondents agree than disagree that \u201cpeople can find their soulmates on a dating app\u201d (41% vs. 15%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDating apps feel like they have so much potential for the people who use them. There is a sense that the ideal person is just one swipe away so you can\u2019t give up, because what if?\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/kathryn-coduto\/\">Kathryn Coduto<\/a>, an assistant professor at Boston University College of Communication whose recent research has focused on dating apps technology.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/with-dating-apps-we-doubt-them-but-wont-drop-them\/\">here<\/a>, BU Brink coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/why-we-swipe-looking-for-love-in-online-places\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_content=research_socialsciences&amp;utm_campaign=social_experts\">here<\/a> and Boston Globe coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/02\/14\/lifestyle\/do-people-have-faith-dating-apps\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass Americans doubt dating apps are the best way to find a successful relationship and they certainly don\u2019t trust them \u2013 but they\u2019re apparently unwilling to give up on apps like Match, Tinder and Hinge in the search for their true soulmate. Those are some of the takeaways from the latest Media &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}