"People aren't products": Comparing dating apps to online shopping
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As methods of meeting people continue to evolve, The Agenda speaks to Zoe Strimpel, a Gender and Modern Relationships Historian at the University of Sussex. She also regularly writes columns about similar topics for news outlets including The Telegraph and The Independent. 

Zoe explains how the immediacy and convenience of dating apps is changing our expectations of relationships. She says we are treating people like products and that dating apps are similar to online shopping.

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