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  Have you ever used a dating app? I would go as far as to say that most of us, if we have not used a dating app personally, know someone who has used one. In September 2019, Tinder reported that it had 7.86 million users in the United States. Bumble, a dating app created to allow women to make the first move, had 5.03 million mobile users. Below you will find a chart displaying the most popular online dating apps in the United States sized in millions of users. You can also find the chart here . Dating apps are clearly a popular way for individuals to connect with each other. And their popularly has only ground during the Coronavirus pandemic. Due to stay at home orders and social distancing practices, which are still recommended, there has been an increased interesting in online dating. 95 percent of communication happens nonverbally, and if we cannot connect with people in person, we make changes were we have to. In 2020, 31% of Millennials in the United States said they were us...

Have you every used the reviews and ratings section on Amazon or any website for that matter? I know I have, and I assume we all have used it at least once. Whether it is shopping for a new blender  to know if it will work or shopping for new athleisure (that was me this weekend), we all find ourselves scrolling to the bottom of the website page to read through, at least, the first few reviews of a product. Companies know that their customers use reviews so much that there are specific tabs to make it easier, Amazon allows customers to match height and weight on clothing reviews, for us to sort through to find the best reviews for us. See below to find the standard Amazon review template. These simple ratings and reviews sections of websites were not always available to us. Reviews and rating are part of the technologies within the groundswell. The groundswell "is a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditio...

Warning: Reading this blog may make you spent an absurd amount of money on books, just so you can try to read them before they are spoiled for you by Tik Tok users Additional side effects may include buying an author's entire bibliography This is the  God Tier Book  Tag. It may only be used for your finest, your freshest, your most scrumdidiliumptious books. Many users who find themselves on the Book side of the Tik Tok algorithm, or BookTok as it has become known, may be quite used to this sound, and sounds like it, popping up all over their For You Pages. These popular sounds include voice overs of someone asking for people to show their "most underrated book" or a book "they would love to read again for the first time". Or my personal favorite "the book that made you cry" which, more often than not, ends up being The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. BookTok started off as a place for individuals to come together to talk about the books they enjo...