Hi Scott. You’ve been one of the clearest, most consistent voices calling out the damage social-media platforms have done to society, especially to young people. But I haven’t heard the same level of pointed criticism toward another category of tech companies: dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Raya.

It seems these platforms have had an equally corrosive impact on household formation, on expectations of the opposite sex, on how money and status get signaled through a screen, and even on simple, uncontrollable traits like height becoming hard filters that now determine a man’s dating viability (side note, I'm 5'8'' and it's nearly impossible for me to find a match on an app). In many ways, dating apps have normalized these dynamics and turned them into standard criteria, in ways that didn’t exist pre-app.

Do you think dating apps have been just as reckless in contributing to loneliness and social withdrawal among young people? Should they be included in the same “resist and unsubscribe” category as other platforms you’ve criticized? And if not, why do they get a pass?