Need a new dating app?

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Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist has a very funny piece over at The New Yorker about the dating apps of 2014. This one sounds good:

Unhinged

Description: Disconnect from old connections. Designed for the dumped, the living alone, and the emotionally delayed.

How it works: Unhinged is an app and a lifestyle. It defriends, unfollows, dislikes, unsubscribes from, and un-whatever-it’s-called-when-you-no-longer-see-someone-on-Pinterest. It disables notifications, mental stability, and preferences, as well as deletes up-tempo songs containing the word “love,” all browser and romantic history, and erotic ephemera, like expired sexts. Special features include: events to avoid, antidepressant side effects, Adele lyrics.

As the tagline says: Owning a smartphone is the first step to hooking up.

Read the rest here. 

Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide. More from this author →