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About half of never-married Americans have used an online dating site or app

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Two years later, a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that nearly percent of heterosexual relationships in the U. And by , that number will leap up to percent, Amy Nobile, relationship expert and founder of dating concierge service Love, Amy , tells InsideHook. While millennials may never be able to afford that home in the suburbs, they are growing up. The oldest members of the generation once synonymous with youth and its 21st-century vices will turn 40 this year.

Like millennials themselves, dating apps are growing up. While Tinder, the platform that first introduced dating apps to the millennial masses back in , has rebranded in recent years to appeal to a younger, Gen Z audience in a desperate attempt to avoid going the way of Facebook, many new and existing dating apps are attempting to age gracefully with their millennial users.

Increasingly, however, newer dating apps — especially those that pride themselves on finding matches for a slightly older, wiser generation of app-daters — seem to be forgoing the swipe. Elite dating app The League, which debuted in as an app for busy, career-minded millennials looking for real connections, is also a swipe-free zone, instead presenting its exclusive community of users with a curated selection of three to five prospective matches per day, which users can tap — but never swipe — to either accept or decline.