#hinge

#hinge

LaZebnik, 31, likes how nice and caring Ohioans tend to be. They're "Golden Retriever boys," he says, who give great hugs and seem to be eternally optimistic - a nice balance, he finds, to his biting Jewish sarcasm. Again and again, he'll ask dates where they're from and receive the same answer. Once, his date said he was actually from Kentucky, which gave LaZebnik pause until he clarified that he was from northern Kentucky, which is part of the Cincinnati metro area.

Three to five years from now, probably sooner than that, honestly, it will feel relatively arcane to feel like you had to go through hundreds of profiles, if not more, in order to get out on a date,

Bumble's total paying users dropped 8.7 percent to 3.8 million in the second quarter, raising concerns about the effectiveness of its improvement strategies and AI initiatives.

"[The prompts] are intended to help someone reading them have a bit more imagination about how your world and their world might connect," says Jackie Jantos.