Podcast Episode: I Am Not A Parking Spot
Judith Duportail is a Paris-based author and journalist featured in Connected, on Netflix. This week she's speaking to your host about what information dating apps are collecting from us, and also what they're saying to us, about who we are, and what our singlehood means. If you are a single person who has ever felt fed up with dating apps, and confused about why we keep going back, and back, and back, this will be a fun and illuminating conversation for you.
The episode starts out with your host working through the idea of "buying our way into" relationships, and how we often assign the secondary goal of "so that I can meet someone" to common activities and pursuits. We're not reading self help books or taking solo trips or pursuing new hobbies "so that we can meet someone." We're doing these things because they're enjoyable to do. And often, assigning the secondary goal of finding partnership to the initial activity itself can lead to, in addition to disappointment, a dulling of the joy one can take in any aspect of life.
Connected on Netflix (Judith’s episode is Surveilance)
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