Diary of a Gen Z Student: Welcome to Armageddon — aka Tinder on a Friday night

"You’ll see people say they’re looking for a ‘short term relationship’. A rare few saying they’re looking for a ‘serious relationship’. Some are ‘figuring out their dating goals’. Most are looking for ‘something casual’."

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan. Photo: Barry Cronin

Yeats wrote ‘The Second Coming’ about Armageddon. Chaos taking over the world, innocence being lost, that sort of thing. 

Anyone traversing the dating landscape knows exactly what Yeats is talking about. We’re living it.