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While true, I feel this is more conducive in unforced, organic encounters. i.e. if you and the other person meet and interact in some other group or activity th
by decafninja 6y ago
While true, I feel this is more conducive in unforced, organic encounters. i.e. if you and the other person meet and interact in some other group or activity that has nothing to do with dating.
In an online dating situation, you have extremely little to determine what the other person is like, so appearances (photo) becomes significantly more weighted. You look at the photo, find him/her unattractive, and move on.
Whereas in a more organic situation, you may find the person unattractive at first meet, but as you interact with them, decide otherwise.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoYeah, see this is one of the ways in which I find online dating now even worse than it was in the oughties. People didn't even bother trying to inject some kind of personality into their profile, so even if I matched them I had nothing to say to them. There is no online dating anymore really, there is only online hookup. That's fine if that's what you're into, but goddamn is this shit shallow. I think it is time we admit that there are some problems that just can't be solved with a website.
- toyg 6y agoThe issue is that personality can be faked, or even just show friction between “personality via delayed text media” and “personality in immediate conversation”. So the apps try to tone it down and just leave that side to the date experience.