‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.

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    1 year ago

    I like how the title implies that the college students have dumped the app because the CEO has stepped down, as if they only kept using it to not hurt the CEO’s feelings.

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      1 year ago

      I took it the exact opposite way. College students aren’t using the app and the CEO was forced out… I’m sorry “stepped down”

      • Crit@links.hackliberty.org
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        1 year ago

        Then it should be the other way around “CEO forced to step down as college students aren’t using the app anymore”, the latter caused the former.

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          1 year ago

          Notice how you have to add the "“is forced to” to make even the “reverse” say what you want. I agree that it isnt a great title, but the “as” indicates things happening at the same time, not necessarily the former causing the latter.

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            1 year ago

            Tbh I just wrote it from memory as I’m on my phone: Bumble CEO steps down as college students dump dating apps

            And I have to disagree, it definitely is a causality thing in a weird way, sure they happen at the same time-ish but it implies a connection between the former and the latter — the latter being used as a reference point around which the former is explained to have happened.

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              1 year ago

              Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shitty title that could be more clear and I can absolutely see how you can infer that conclusion. But the fact that when you reversed it you had to add “is forced to” to drive home the point just kind of proves my point how weak the inference that the former caused the latter is.

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                  1 year ago

                  lol. I didn’t even realize you had rewritten it again. Further driving home the point that the order makes little difference.

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      1 year ago

      Many posts in lemmy have confusing titles.

      I wonder if posters like OP brainstorm for 10 min like… How can I make the title more confusing?

      Edit: sorry to all OPs, I’ve never noticed titles are the same after visiting the article page.

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        1 year ago

        We should stop calling these titles confusing and call them what they are, plain wrong. This is the title of the original article. People who cannot write grammatically correct titles are writing entire articles.