Dating apps have changed how we meet, connect, and decide—but they haven’t come with much guidance on how to navigate the uncertainty, information overload, and fatigue that often follow. Love in the Time of Dating Apps is a five-part educational series that explores modern dating as a decision-making challenge shaped by the Information Age.

This series focuses on understanding the systems we’re dating inside and how those systems influence how we think, feel, and choose over time. Each session introduces a distinct lens on modern dating, helping participants make sense of common frustrations.

The series is intentionally dating-goal, orientation, and identity agnostic, and designed for people who are currently dating online, considering returning after a break, or simply curious about why dating feels harder than expected.

Each session stands on its own, but together they offer a deeper framework for understanding and reshaping how you relate to dating apps and to your own decision-making.

The Five Sessions

• Uncertainty and the Information Age
  Why does dating feel so ambiguous today, even with more access and information than ever before? This session explores uncertainty as the defining condition of modern dating and how the Information Age has reshaped meaning-making, social scripts, and expectations.

• The Rise of Choicetech
  Dating apps don’t just present options, they actively shape how information and choice interact. This session explores dating apps as choicetech: tools designed to structure decision-making under uncertainty by filtering, ranking, pacing, and framing information. We’ll look at how these systems influence perception and evaluation in modern dating, often in ways that are easy to miss but hard to opt out of.

• Choice Inflation: Our Current Predicament (more info coming soon)
  More choice was supposed to make dating easier. This session looks at what happens when abundance begins to undermine confidence, satisfaction, and follow-through—and why “keeping options open” often comes at a cost.

• Information Overload and Modern Dating (more info coming soon)
  Profiles, prompts, messages, and social media create an information-dense dating environment—but not necessarily a more informative one. This session explores why more data rarely resolves uncertainty and how interpretation becomes labor.

• Decision Fatigue and Dating Burnout (more info coming soon)
  When dating starts to feel exhausting, it’s often a decision-making issue, not a motivation problem. This session examines how repeated micro-decisions drain capacity over time and why burnout is a predictable outcome of modern dating systems.