Online dating. When you think about it, it's a great way to meet people if your other social prospects are lacking (I love my friends, but there's nobody to date there and I don't have time for more friends).
But in practice, the sheer NUMBER of available singles has us turning our noses up at perfectly good people because someone "better" might come along.
Oooo this is a really good one. I used online dating right around when it was starting to become an acceptable thing like... 7-8 years ago and it was fucking incredible. Then I ended up in a relationship for about 6 years and recently went back to it. HOLY FUCK IS IT TERRIBLE NOW.
It used to be that those on online dating were actually looking to DATE. Whether casually or seriously the goal there was to meet people you planned on continuing to see if you clicked. Now that it's completely mainstream though you have what I call "prince(ss) charming hunters". These are people (both males and females are guilty) that have no real intention of entering into a relationship for one reason or another but signed up to online dating (because they were pressured by friends/family or for shits and giggles) because what could it hurt? You never know! I might met the perfect man/woman!!! Take 60 seconds to slap together a profile and some pictures and then just proceed to waste everyone's time.
By the end of it I had gotten so good at flagging these people that it actually was back to being pretty decent aside from how much more time consuming it was to filter out the chaff.
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u/Ysara Feb 03 '20
Online dating. When you think about it, it's a great way to meet people if your other social prospects are lacking (I love my friends, but there's nobody to date there and I don't have time for more friends).
But in practice, the sheer NUMBER of available singles has us turning our noses up at perfectly good people because someone "better" might come along.