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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Whelp, I was about to bite the bullet and sign up.

Guess not. I'll stay alone.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago*

    OKCupid is notoriously a bad place to sign up anyway.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okcupid-experiment_n_5628054

    They openly admitted to experimenting on people, like hiding people's profile information, telling people who had scored high matches that they had low matches, telling people who scored low matches that they had high matches. They do non-consensual social experiments.

    "The site told some pairs who were bad matches that they were, in fact, great for each other"

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  • [+] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What advice would you have as alternatives to online dating?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Do you have hobbies that involve going outside and interacting with other people.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    As someone who has tried them off and on for the last 2 years, they are all 100% trash. Borderline scam territory, and if you do get matched with anyone and get a date out of it, they are usually self centered, rude, and not worth your time.

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