Why Dating Apps Want You to Stay Single

[@aaronkcmo]

3:37 uh, who was meeting people "online" in 1980? DARPA engineers?

[@paulberman9259]

I think another thing that happens is because of the internet we can easily fall into niche groups of people where it's hard to meet someone. And the taboos of meeting someone irl vs online. there is a lot of stress in how people will perceive a man walking up and talking with a woman.

[@Loocy222]

How about we just like.... Go outside. Blaming apps for your slow love life is so weird. Darts, pool, golf, bar, concerts.... Everything he listed still exists. Just making up problems lmao "completely gone" where? What are we talking about?

[@obtuse_one]

Yep, the problem is hobbies were once affordable. People talk about housing, food, etc., but the cost of a hobby has also exploded. Especially when so much more of our incomes are going to the basics.

[@glennwatson3313]

I'm no dating expert but one thing I do know is that it has always been tough to find the right person.

[@obtuse_one]

I don't know about well-to-do urban millennials, maybe they have spare income after their boomer parents sold the third rental house and helped them with their down-payment, but neither I nor any of my friends have the spare income to be spending several nights a month at a "third place". 90% of these social problems can be collapsed into "everyone is poor now".

[@prabhdeepdhahan1147]

Hear, hear!