14 February 2021 - 00:00 By Sunday Times Reporter Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays Fleabag, which inspired the dating term fleabagging . Image: IMDb
If you want to understand the challenges facing young people today when it comes to finding the one , look no further than their online dating semiotics, aka digital slang.
The swamp of modern, app-based dating is hostile, cold-blooded, superficial and quid pro quo as these new terms make abundantly obvious:
Doxxing: Harvesting someone s online information in order to harass them, often publicly broadcasting private or identifying information.
Eclipsing: Adopting the interests or hobbies of someone you re dating and pretending you like them too.