This is why loneliness and dating apps are such a bad match

Users who felt lonely and socially anxious put swiping before work and school.

While dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Bumble were developed to help people find each other, researchers from Ohio State University have found that singles suffering from loneliness and social anxiety are more likely to start compulsively using such apps.

The study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships surveyed 269 undergraduate students who used one or more dating apps by asking questions to measure their loneliness and social anxiety , as well as whether they agreed with statements such as, “I am unable to reduce the amount of time I spend on dating apps.”

Separately, one in six singles admitted in a 2017 survey from Match MTCH, +0.20% — which owns dating sites Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid — that they felt addicted to the process of looking for a date. And millennials spend 20 hours a week on dating apps, according to dating service Badoo.com, with men spending an average of 85 minutes a day on dating apps, while women swipe left or right for an average of 79 minutes daily.

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