• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s the same way everyone talks about how dating apps suck and it’s ruined dating, etc. But what is the real alternative?

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      8 days ago

      It’s the same way everyone talks about how dating apps suck and it’s ruined dating, etc. But what is the real alternative?

      dating apps are different in that you’re specifically using it to get a date, instead of trying to make your life look more fun/happy/glamorous than that of your “friends”. once you meet someone and start a relationship, the app served its purpose and (in theory) you stop using it. i’ve never used a dating app, but i can see the value in them for people who are looking for specific less-than-common traits in a partner-- if you’re asexual (for example) and looking for someone who’s the same, then an app might be the only way you can find that someone. the alternative is go out looking on your own every day until you happen across whatever specific thing you’re looking for by chance, which may never happen.

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      8 days ago

      I married a very nice girl last month. We met at work 5 years ago.

      We need to figure out how to rebuild social relations without the Internet. Otherwise the billionaire class will control access to the opposite gender. For the sake of humanity, go be nice to a stranger.