I honestly can't afford to lose my wife because there's no way I would find another partner in the modern dating scene. I feel like the bar is way higher than it was in the early 2000s.
The woman I am going to marry is the kind of person that would never use a dating app. Literally the same week I gave up on online dating, she asked me out at work.
Never had success trying to meet girls on the internet. Sometimes you just have to get lucky and hopefully there's someone attractive who is interested in you wherever you work/study/hang out.
I feel like nowadays people like if someone doesn't have a social media and doesn't or never had any sort of dating app
Dating apps should be publicly funded like a kind of public utility. And private dating apps heavily regulated and prevented from advertising. Because currently they making profit by keeping you single.
Like water and air, love should not be for profit.
is that what you tell yourself?
you really think a government dating app is going to help get you laid?
I think it's more that the entire business model of dating apps means they profit from people staying single and looking, not finding long term relationships.
Hahaha!
You could have private ones but non-profit. Not sure the size of the minimum network effect though. Probably lower than for social media. Maybe we should add education courses on relationships too. And free therapy. It's guberment all the way down!
I mean.. most people are kind of boring. It's not surprising that most profiles will thus be kind of boring.
The biggest factors I think are
The apps suck and are a capitalist nightmare, but there's stuff you can do to improve the odds as a free user.
I just remembered some guy on lemmy that was like "i can't get any dates on these things!" and when pressed, he revealed that he'd talk to women on there for a couple weeks, and then was surprised when nothing happened. No shit. You gotta ask people out.
In my experience with Hinge- it was because I was openly queer. Hinge was far too normie, I had much better luck with Bumble.
Probably just messaging fake accounts/bots to make it look like women use the app but then real women get the flack for it
Yeah, that's what they do. People don't notice that? I've known several guys that worked this kind of jobs on and off when really strapped for money. Pretending to be women online. Unethical AF, of course, but this is more widespread than you could possibly imagine. And it's not hard at all to get hired. I feel sorry for the dudes falling for it, though.
Reminded me of a terrible joke.
Why couldn’t Hellen Keller drive a car?
Because she was a woman.
Helen Keller wasn’t real
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Years ago, a friend of mine once had: "Seeking partner skilled in armed combat for the coming apocalypse. Must not be averse to cannibalism" as their bio.
Got 'em a couple DMs I think
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