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Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Honestly my biggest problem is:
... what the hell am I supposed to do other than use these apps society?
If you like hiking, you might also enjoy indoor rock climbing. It's more social and fun than a gym and you will have the opportunity to interact with a lot of the same people repeatedly. You might even have some beginners groups in you area to get started. Meetup.com is good for finding groups like that.
Good luck out there!
Meet people online via shared interests. I'm not one to tout Reddit, but really engaging in niche communities there gives you wide exposure specifically targeted. Don't expect immediate results, but it is a valid method.
Nope, then you get people complaining that “this is not a dating spot”.
I mean, tell that to my ex-fiancee where it took us a year to get engaged after meeting on Reddit. Then Covid hit and we couldn't meet. We still talk, years later, but now we're in "old friends" mode.
Yeah ... I appreciate the effort but I don't think that's a real answer.
I don't want to date half way across the country or world ... or slide into other people's DMs (which is something girls ALSO complain about dudes doing).
At that point if the answer is "someone's going to be possibly uncomfortable anyways" I'm better off just doing the cold approach where I can at least read body language.
Not to mention there are a ton of elements of attraction that just don't work on a forum.
But hourslong calls with a Scottish lass? Would you turn down the opportunity to have that in your ear?