{"id":190032,"date":"2026-02-23T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:45:12","slug":"what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"What dating apps are really optimizing. Guillaume Mauri Manuel Hint: it isn&#8217;t love &#8212; The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prlog.org\/13129092-what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love.html\">What dating apps are really optimizing. Guillaume Mauri Manuel Hint: it isn&#8217;t love &#8212; The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prlog.org\/13129092-what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love.html\">https:\/\/www.prlog.org\/13129092-what-dating-apps-are-really-optimizing-guillaume-mauri-manuel-hint-it-isnt-love.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-23 21:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prlog.org\">www.prlog.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Consumer Mindset in Dating<\/strong>: Users on dating apps adopt a consumption mindset, comparing potential partners much like shopping, leading to behaviors that prioritize finding the &#8220;highest-value&#8221; partner.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Spike in Activity During Valentine\u2019s Day<\/strong>: Dating apps experience an increase in new users and activity around Valentine\u2019s Day, highlighting both hope and the paradox of increasing loneliness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Commodification of Social Bonds<\/strong>: The design of dating apps transforms human connections into commodities, eroding meaningful interactions and fostering a dating culture that feels disposable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Economic and Technological Impact<\/strong>: The businesses behind dating platforms, like Match Group, are heavily invested in driving user growth and profitability, using analytics and AI tools, yet a decline in paying users prompts new strategies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Superficial Competition<\/strong>: Interactions on dating apps often prioritize superficial criteria like beauty or status, reinforcing existing social hierarchies and making individuals feel replaceable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What dating apps are really optimizing. Guillaume Mauri Manuel Hint: it isn&#8217;t love &#8212; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.prlog.org\/13129092-guillaume-mauri-manuel-rosy-perez.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190034,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190032\/revisions\/190034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}