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That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in

That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in an apathetic and disconnected bartering economy. "City life is mostly positive, you just have to make sure never to handle cash where anyone can see you and not go out after 9PM." Furthermore, the fact that you actually work for a dating app will likely make it very difficult to convince you of any of its potential secondary negative effects on what's left of society. I've had similar experiences with discussing the military-industrial complex and economic imperialism with acquaintances of mine working for defense contractors or serving in the armed forces. Overall, we agree on this point: >a very not insignificant distribution of the people complaining and having 0 success on the apps probably also fall into the type of person that wouldn't have much success in real life scenarios as well. The claim I and others on this thread are making is that this subset of people would not have had such a hard time in real life before the advent of social media and dating apps.

volkk 6y ago
> That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in an apathetic and disconnected bartering economy. "City life is mostly positive, you just have to make sure never to handle cash where anyone can see you and not go out after 9PM." you're not wrong. i think a lot of people feel this way on dating apps. it's far too disconnected from real life and removes any sort of mutual respect you've agreed to give people in a society. > Furthermore, the fact that you actually work for a dating app will likely make it very difficult to convince you of any of its potential secondary negative effects on what's left of society trust me, my eyes are very open to all of the negative consequences of dating apps, but i think this argument can be extended to a lot of the rest of the internet, general media, etc. > The claim I and others on this thread are making is that this subset of people would not have had such a hard time in real life before the advent of social media and dating apps. i'm not convinced on this. i'm not putting my hands over my ears. i'm open to hear an argument, but i don't see why someone who sucks at dating apps and can't write something relatively interesting to somebody would magically turn into a different person in real life. i would guess very few people are this way and the majority that are boring online are boring face to face

volkk 6y ago

> That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in an apathetic and disconnected bartering economy. "City life is mostly positive, you just have to make sure never to handle cash where anyone can see you and not go out after 9PM." you're not wrong. i think a lot of people feel this way on dating apps. it's far too disconnected from real life and removes any sort of mutual respect you've agreed to give people in a society. > Furthermore, the fact that you actually work for a dating app will likely make it very difficult to convince you of any of its potential secondary negative effects on what's left of society trust me, my eyes are very open to all of the negative consequences of dating apps, but i think this argument can be extended to a lot of the rest of the internet, general media, etc. > The claim I and others on this thread are making is that this subset of people would not have had such a hard time in real life before the advent of social media and dating apps. i'm not convinced on this. i'm not putting my hands over my ears. i'm open to hear an argument, but i don't see why someone who sucks at dating apps and can't write something relatively interesting to somebody would magically turn into a different person in real life. i would guess very few people are this way and the majority that are boring online are boring face to face