Before there was Tinder or Bumble, there was PhoneFling.
Released in 2005, PhoneFling was among the first mobile dating sites in the United States. Twenty years later, a co-creator of the pioneering platform is on a mission to save the dating scene from the damage caused by online services like his.
“Modern dating apps have made the process 100 percent digital,” Scott Demyon says. “Chemistry, personality and body language have been stripped from the process. Our brains have been rewired to make quick, shallow decisions, thinking there’s another option right around the next swipe. We’re passing on people who, had we met in person, might’ve been a good match.”…