People keep telling me that dating today is a war zone, facing all kinds of challenges.

Dating apps don’t seem to be directly trying to help solve the problem as much as generate revenue. In fact, they are very directly motivated to not make great long term matches.

Some people seem think that just getting out there and hoping for the best is the answer. Maybe that’s true, but it’s still very random. I was wondering about a hypothetical alternative:

What if you could go to an agency of some kind get rated through a thorough evaluation process? Would that be helpful ? It’s not perfect, and many things are hard to measure. But maybe it’s a less random starting point and can escape the exclusively money driven approach of dating apps.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It seems like a lot of younger technical folks keep going to hookup sites in an effort to find a date. Let’s be real clear here, hooking up and dating are not the same thing, and you usually don’t want to date someone you met at a hookup joint. Go meet people in the real world. Form a friendship with them. Then date them.