because I had never seen one before,

and now I've seen countless.

Paige DiFiore: It's basically like, when you're

lonely and sad,

you scroll on your phone,

and there's just a bunch of people,

and you swipe right if they're cute,

and you swipe left if you're like, no, thank you.

Abby Tang: Tinder is a necessary evil.

Shannon Murphy: Is why ghosting was invented.

Ian Burke: I've probably had, like, five Tinder dates

in my life.

Three of them went well, one was just, like, boring,

and the other one was a catastrophe.

Tang: You think I'm gonna, like, go into a bar

and just tap someone on the shoulder

and talk to them for no reason?

It sounds bananas to me.

Alli Guerra: Being on Tinder gives you the opportunity

to meet people that you otherwise never would have met

in your life.

Tang: So, the first Tinder date I ever went on,

we went to Uptown Lounge in Chicago.

It's karaoke night.

He has signed us up for a grand finale.

Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights,"

a seven-minute song about losing your virginity

and being trapped in a marriage for the rest of your life.

I never saw him again.

Nate Lee: Airbnb is a home away from home.

Nich Carlson: When you wanna go to a place

and you wanna feel like you're a local

or you wanna feel like you're actually kind of living there

and pretend a little bit,

it's actually really nice to be staying in an Airbnb.

Guerra: Our generation, we don't own things anymore,

so I was just, like, thinking

about, like, my parents' generation,

they might've done, like, a time-share in Florida

or something like that.

With Airbnb, like, you can just get in and get out.

You have zero responsibility to the location itself.

Victoria Barranco: You're not locked in to having to have

reservations months and months in advance.

You can do things quite last-minute if you need to.

Guerra: I could go to, like, a yurt in, like, Yellowstone

versus just, like, thinking of lodging as a place

to, like, rest my head.

Lee: I haven't stayed in a hotel for, like,

almost two years now.

Carlson: It's really nice to stay in an Airbnb,

which will have a kitchen, and instead of having to stay

in a suite at a hotel, which could cost a lot more.

If you're gonna use Airbnb, don't go anywhere that doesn't

have, like, 20 reviews and have all the stars.

Just don't risk it.

Jade Tungul: My family was using Netflix around the time

that it was, like, still physical CDs.

Jacqui Frank: And I loved it when it was, like, just DVDs.

I was like: "This is great! I can have anything I want."

Tungul: Before that, it was Blockbuster.

Carlson: I miss Blockbuster. But that's OK.

Netflix is great.

Frank: And then, when they, like,

switched to the whole digital streaming format,

I remember having conversations that were like,

"Who's going to stay home all day and watch TV?"

Like, "TV happens at a certain time,

and that's when you watch it."

Carlson: It is amazing that Netflix went from, like,

one business to a totally different business.

Most things can't do that.

Like, companies usually can't pivot that well.

Nikki Torres: It's amazing. I love,

love, love, love Netflix.

And I get for free with my T-Mobile subscription.

Tang: Netflix comes in here, and it's like:

"I'm Netflix. I'm gonna offer you infinite content.

You can watch hours and hours

until you're on your deathbed."

Torres: There's something on there for literally everyone.

Frank: I truly think if you had told 2006 Jacqui

that she would spend Saturdays

watching Netflix until her butt hurt

that she wouldn't believe you.

Alex Appolonia: I spend way too much time on Instagram.

And I'll never get those minutes back.

Jason Sanchez: Instagram was awesome when it first came out

'cause it was basically what Facebook should be.

Which is, like, I just wanna see photos.

Shayanne Gal: Through sharing posts on Instagram,

I ended up meeting a bunch of friends

that ended up becoming my real-life friends.

Carlson: Like everyone else,

I put my best life on Instagram.

I use Instagram to just tell people

I have such a wonderful life.

And it's so awesome.

Aren't I great?

Gal: You can literally connect with anyone from anywhere

in the world based on a hashtag or a location tag.

Carlson: When I had my first kid...whoo!

Did I see my engagement on Instagram spike.

70 likes. 80. Sometimes 100 or more.

Gal: It's always the pressure of, like,

likes and followers, and I think that

that's becoming a big thing in general.

But at the same time,

I've been able to just meet all of these people

that share the same niche interest with me.

If you use it in that way, for networking

and kinda pursuing certain passions,

it's awesome.

Appolonia: I will never be an influencer,

and I'm totally OK with that.

There's a lot of pressure that I think comes with

being an influencer and keeping up with that.

And staying relevant and, you know, pushing out

content that the world wants to see.

Sanchez: I feel like Instagram is the app that I use first.

Like, when I open my phone up and I'm just sort of,

like, mindlessly like, "I gonna kill time."

Like, it's Instagram first.

Appolonia: If you're not on Instagram, some people are like,

are you even a real person?

Juliana Kaplan: I feel like Seamless is like:

"Oh, you are a 13-year-old child.

Would you like a milkshake and a grilled cheese

from this diner down the block?"

And I go, "Thank you, Seamless."

And then I order it.

Matt Stuart: Four to five times a week

I was ordering Seamless.

It got bad.

Torres: There's always great coupons on there.

I just got, like, a great meal that would have cost me,

like, $30 for, like, $10 the other day.

Stuart: I had to start tracking my budget

'cause I was ordering Seamless too much.

Appolonia: I think food-delivery apps

are just a mark of people's laziness.

Stuart: It was irresponsible, and I lived in this warehouse

with a not-optimal or superclean kitchen for cooking.

So Seamless was just a better option, really.

Torres: I live in a really kinda isolated area in the Bronx.

So it's kinda nice to have Seamless

'cause they kinda have, like, restaurants

that are willing to travel through that.

Kaplan: They must have a very good algorithm,

because they've definitely, like,

learned about, like, my weird food tastes.

And Seamless is like, "Would you like one plain bagel

with cream cheese and french fries?"

And I'm like, "Yes."

Appolonia: You can literally stay inside,

where you live, all day,

and not interact with anybody in the outside world.

Torres: Better than, you know, back then,

when you had to call personally and, like,

they would mess your order up,

and then you couldn't understand the person on the phone.

Even though it's not the healthier choice...

Appolonia: It's great if you're hungover and you just

don't want to leave your house and go get food.

Carlson: Slack...before Slack, people used

AOL Instant Messenger.

It wasn't that great.

Guerra: This is the first job that I've ever had

that's used Slack, and I honestly don't know

how I survived without Slack before.

Trisha Bonthu: It's just a nice way to interact

without, like, disturbing others

if you're, like, right there, too.

Or just, like, instantly talk to<