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0 pointskaesar144y ago0 comments

Agreed, and according to this data: https://www.statista.com/chart/20822/way-of-meeting-partner-... it's now the most common way of meeting a partner.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet4y ago· 2 in thread

That doesn't mean it is actually good, it just means that there is a lack of alternatives for meeting people. Society seems to be trending towards less and less interaction with other people.

toxik4y ago

This seems like a fairly negative assessment of the facts. I think many people turn to online dating voluntarily, not as some sort of last ditch effort to find a partner. Au contraire, the people I found in the typical settings where you meet new people like bars, night clubs, and doing my hobbies, tended to be a very particular kind of person. I would never have found my current partner in any of those places, and I know the same to be true for many of my friends.

Online dating is just increasing your dating surface area by 10-100x fold.

AnIdiotOnTheNet4y ago

I guess I have a very different experience. I consistently found that online dating (especially Tinder) felt, for lack of a better word, fake, and weirdly like job hunting only worse. The only reason I ever bothered was because nobody seems to do the kinds of things where people used to meet their significant others anymore. People can't even be assed to make plans these days for fuck sake. Personally, I find the whole thing so tedious and terrible that it isn't even worth it.

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