You sound of out of touch. Dating nowadays is wayyyy worse than what it used to be just 10 years ago. People have become more shallow, more opinionated, more entitled, more bitter. This is on top of having bad social skills, not knowing how to have a good time, and being so sheltered that they literally fear everything to an unhealthy degree.
Despite this, approaching people irl is still better than online dating. At least some normal and decent people could be found on occasion. Online dating? Nope. It is truly the worst of the worst. For men, you will get nothing and for women you will get way too much. The quality of profiles of both genders is atrocious and the matches aren’t any better. Low effort, sleazy, even more toxic, even more opinionated, even more entitled, even more unsociable and awkward. This is on top of the corporations who own these apps manipulating the algorithms to keep as lonely as possible for as long as possible so you can be desperate enough to pay for their subscriptions. They generate a fuck ton of fake profiles, they’ll send fake likes, they’ll restrict basic features, they’ll spam you with ads, they’ll suppress your profile in the algorithms, and they won’t show you people who match your preferences even when you set them.
The two longest relationships I’ve had came from online dating including my current one of almost three years. I’ll agree with only one thing you said. There are a lot of entitled people. Exhibit A is you and this comment. You apparently think someone was supposed to make a perfect app that somehow engineered shitty people out of your life.
It’s not entitlement to criticize the unethical practices that these soulless corporations use to exploit the loneliness of people to extract as much money from them as possible. It is gotten to the point where these corporations, mainly the Match group, are causing actual harm to social cohesion. This industry needs regulation.
You sound of out of touch. Dating nowadays is wayyyy worse than what it used to be just 10 years ago. People have become more shallow, more opinionated, more entitled, more bitter. This is on top of having bad social skills, not knowing how to have a good time, and being so sheltered that they literally fear everything to an unhealthy degree.
Despite this, approaching people irl is still better than online dating. At least some normal and decent people could be found on occasion. Online dating? Nope. It is truly the worst of the worst. For men, you will get nothing and for women you will get way too much. The quality of profiles of both genders is atrocious and the matches aren’t any better. Low effort, sleazy, even more toxic, even more opinionated, even more entitled, even more unsociable and awkward. This is on top of the corporations who own these apps manipulating the algorithms to keep as lonely as possible for as long as possible so you can be desperate enough to pay for their subscriptions. They generate a fuck ton of fake profiles, they’ll send fake likes, they’ll restrict basic features, they’ll spam you with ads, they’ll suppress your profile in the algorithms, and they won’t show you people who match your preferences even when you set them.
The dating scene is a total shitshow.
The two longest relationships I’ve had came from online dating including my current one of almost three years. I’ll agree with only one thing you said. There are a lot of entitled people. Exhibit A is you and this comment. You apparently think someone was supposed to make a perfect app that somehow engineered shitty people out of your life.
It’s not entitlement to criticize the unethical practices that these soulless corporations use to exploit the loneliness of people to extract as much money from them as possible. It is gotten to the point where these corporations, mainly the Match group, are causing actual harm to social cohesion. This industry needs regulation.