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Opps, again, I should have said "sites or apps". I said "sites" as an umbrella term, referring to all online dating platforms. (That's the word I should have used: "platforms".) It seems like they're becoming oversaturated, as far as their membership is concerned. Just as they're becoming filled with unreplied messages (for men) and d*ck pics (for women).
You're really splitting hairs here. Online dating has moved from sites to apps, and will eventually move to the next technology, and the one after that, along with everything else.
Does that answer suffice, or do you have further stipulations you'd like to make in an attempt to get the response you are seeking?
Meh. Again, it's a "some person" thing. Some people have this sense that if they send out an unsolicited message, they are entitled to at least a conversation. Again, not the fault of the platform- just an "entitled human being" thing.
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Online dating has moved from sites to apps, and will eventually move to the next technology, and the one after that, along with everything else.
Does that answer suffice, or do you have further stipulations you'd like to make in an attempt to get the response you are seeking?
I was looking for more of a yes/no answer to the thread title, along with elaborations. But this answer is good enough. (Sounds like a "no".) Thanks for taking time to write it.
I suppose the popularity of technologies has a life cycle---unless it gets embraced by the corporate world, like e-mail has. The life cycle can be long or short, but it's there.
I was looking for more of a yes/no answer to the thread title, along with elaborations. But this answer is good enough. (Sounds like a "no".)
If you're asking whether the concept of people using the latest technology to find sex and/or romance will collapse, then the answer is a big no. This has always existed and always will. Before the internet there were phone dating services. Before that there were mail services. I have to assume when fire was discovered, it wasn't long before people used fires to meet and hook up.
If you're limiting it to "sites and apps" as you stated most recently, then yes, those technologies as we know them will "collapse" as they are replaced with newer ones.
The more I use OLD services, the more impractical they seem to be.
I'm 30 - have a good job making twice the median HHI in town, no kids, no drama, well-dressed in all my pics, a little chubby but very clean cut, and I can barely even get a passing sniff from women around my age "lower on the ten scale" than me who have kids/baggage, heavier than me, aren't as articulate, etc.
About the only women I get responses from online are 18-20 year olds (fine but probably wouldn't work long term) or women 35+ whose kids are mostly grown.
I'm no Sean Connery but I get a lot more at least passing interest in real life than I do online. I don't think I've had one female Tinder match since moving back three months ago lol.
I think the expectations of women are so far and away ridiculous that many men are just going to end up opting out of OLD.
The new concept will come from....
Volunteering in your community. Actually meeting them thru similar causes of interest. I think happenstance will make a more realistic way to get to vet a date.
No app is able to create the chemistry of attraction. Nature has its own method.
The men I know who are successful in dating don't bother with those apps. They have good social skills, they go out and do things to meet people. If you're "so busy" that you can't meet people without using an app then you're not too serious about dating.
It seems many of the people here (and on forums on general) tend to be more of the nerdy variety. I think that subculture is more likely to use electronic applications than an average man or woman.
I don't think that the reason for the collapse of those mediums for meeting others had anything to do with romance/relationships and everything to do with technology.
People prefer forums to chat rooms because they are moderated.
Really successful online dating could be moderated also. A real life moderator could weed out the nut cases, make introductions based on certain criteria, help those lacking social skills learn new ways of communicating, etc.
Will we somehow stop meeting people using the internet? nope.
The more I use OLD services, the more impractical they seem to be.
I'm 30 - have a good job making twice the median HHI in town, no kids, no drama, well-dressed in all my pics, a little chubby but very clean cut, and I can barely even get a passing sniff from women around my age "lower on the ten scale" than me who have kids/baggage, heavier than me, aren't as articulate, etc.
About the only women I get responses from online are 18-20 year olds (fine but probably wouldn't work long term) or women 35+ whose kids are mostly grown.
I'm no Sean Connery but I get a lot more at least passing interest in real life than I do online. I don't think I've had one female Tinder match since moving back three months ago lol.
I think the expectations of women are so far and away ridiculous that many men are just going to end up opting out of OLD.
I think you would have better luck if you lived in a major metro.
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