Have dating apps ruined romance?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Have dating apps ruined romance?". Your opponent's style: Sherlock Holmes

Yes dating apps have ruined relationships

You're conflating correlation with causation. People unhappy in relationships existed long before apps—you've just made it easier to *leave*. So what's actually ruined: bad relationships, or your ability to tolerate them? Which bothers you more?

Dating apps have lots of cons like catfish,gold diggers,and people who only go for the free dinner.

Those problems exist everywhere—bars, workplaces, real life. Dating apps just make them *visible* and quantifiable instead of hidden. You're complaining about human nature, not the medium. Why blame the tool for revealing what was always there?

Roughly 62% to 57% are catfish and also financial romantic scams which has a good chance of happening.

Those numbers are suspiciously high and unsourced. Even if true, they prove the opposite of your case: apps give you *tools to verify* before meeting. Pre-app dating? You walked blind every time. Which is actually riskier?

People or hackers can outsmart that feature with ai now that technology is getting better and smarter evey day,every hour, even every minute.

You're describing a problem that exists everywhere—not just dating apps. Banks get hacked. Social media gets spoofed. Your argument proves technology itself is the issue, not apps specifically. So why single out dating when the real threat is universal?

Not just that people who say to there friend about this new “girl” they started talking to on tinder or any dating app just to find out it’s a man is really depressing and can cause emotional damage even ruin who they trust kind of like your friend staving you in your back.

That's a betrayal problem, not a dating app problem. Your friend got catfished—yes, painful. But apps didn't invent deception; they just made it faster. People lied in person for centuries. The difference? Now you have *screenshots and verification options* apps didn't have. Why blame the platform for human dishonesty instead of demanding better vetting before you invest emotionally?

Dating apps don’t have enough verification and don’t even match you with supposed your “type”.

Apps match you algorithmically based on data you provide—better than random bar encounters. You want perfect matching? That's not an app failure, that's impossible. Why expect technology to solve what humans can't: knowing what you actually want?