Finally, women are calling out toxic online dates. Now to target the apps themselves | Nancy Jo Sales

Facebook groups are outing male misconduct. But shouldn't dating platforms be doing much more to help protect users?

It had to happen. And now it has. Women are finally rising up against the pitfalls of dating app culture, and fighting back. Since March 2022, Are We Dating the Same Guy? Facebook groups have sprung up in almost every major American city, from New York to Little Rock, as a way for women to call out bad digital dating experiences.

What started as small-scale communities are now spreading internationally and have grown to include hundreds of thousands of members. Boys, frickin' buckle up," one TikTok user said in July. If you mistreat a girl, or are doing some sketchy stuff, the time is over, cause you're getting caught."

Nancy Jo Sales is a writer at Vanity Fair and the author of American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers