I don’t think this is a boomer opinion but I got called a boomer for it once so maybe it is idk:
I think online dating is shit and I don’t mean it in a “It doesn’t work for me” kinda way but I believe it’s objectively shit. In an ever faster world that demands more and more flexibility from people that also extends to dating. It introduces a certain arbitrariness to romantic and sexual relationships. We now have dating apps that you can use to scroll through potential partners like a furniture catalog. It reduces people to a commodity and I hate being confronted with that. I believe it could in combination with the realities of late stage combination harm our ability to establish deep and meaningful connections to people.
It’s literally what my mom warned me off 20 years ago and now I believe she was right.
I feel the same. Also I feel like generall through technological advancement “commoditization of people” is getting more and more apparent. Now with AI, it seems like we are beginning to lose some of the very things which made us unique as humans (art). And it takes a lot of the “magic” of life away. When everything that is special to us can be manufactured, categorized, selected, and delivered algorithmically.
I don’t think this is a boomer opinion but I got called a boomer for it once so maybe it is idk:
I think online dating is shit and I don’t mean it in a “It doesn’t work for me” kinda way but I believe it’s objectively shit. In an ever faster world that demands more and more flexibility from people that also extends to dating. It introduces a certain arbitrariness to romantic and sexual relationships. We now have dating apps that you can use to scroll through potential partners like a furniture catalog. It reduces people to a commodity and I hate being confronted with that. I believe it could in combination with the realities of late stage combination harm our ability to establish deep and meaningful connections to people.
It’s literally what my mom warned me off 20 years ago and now I believe she was right.
It’s almost like we need a new dating website in the fediverse.
Call it no fucks given
I feel the same. Also I feel like generall through technological advancement “commoditization of people” is getting more and more apparent. Now with AI, it seems like we are beginning to lose some of the very things which made us unique as humans (art). And it takes a lot of the “magic” of life away. When everything that is special to us can be manufactured, categorized, selected, and delivered algorithmically.