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Online dating is going to be a nightmare with chatbots flooding the dating sites catfishing everyone. User contrib sites like Reddit will be flooded with bots t

Online dating is going to be a nightmare with chatbots flooding the dating sites catfishing everyone. User contrib sites like Reddit will be flooded with bots that keep the conversation going, but drop in sponsored mentions into things for revenue. I think a push for real, verifiable identities and digitally signing content may happen so people can attempt to wade through what is real and what is fake.

alar44 4y ago
Welcome to online dating since its inception.
reidjs 4y ago
Alternatively you can just go to real events now and spend less time on the Internet.
- yamazakiwi 4y ago
  But then I have to deal with people...why would I want that?
  - matwood 4y ago
    Then chatbots are a good thing :)
cyborgx7 4y ago
When I heard you could pay for the twitter checkmark, I naively assumed they would use that money to actually verify the identity of the people they gave the checkmark to and twitter was being positioned as an authority on identity verification on the internet. I think that space is ripe for the taking, and twitter was in a good spot for it, before they devalued their checkmarks into a meaningless status symbol
- Gigachad 4y ago
  They have changed it up a bit, there is a new checkmark that means "company official page", another one for "notable person" for politicians and journalists, and the blue checkmark which now just means paid for twitter.
  - cyborgx7 4y ago
    The damage has been done. Maybe it's salvageable but I think the perception of the twitter checkmark by the general public has diminished a lot very quickly. Specially by people who pay less close attention to it, and don't necessarily take note of the intricacies of the color coding. Not saying it's unfixable, but that kind of public perception is hard to build and easy to lose.
Gigachad 4y ago
Online dating already is a huge waste of time. You are much better off going out in the real world and meeting people.

alar44 4y ago

Welcome to online dating since its inception.

reidjs 4y ago

Alternatively you can just go to real events now and spend less time on the Internet.

yamazakiwi 4y ago
But then I have to deal with people...why would I want that?
- matwood 4y ago
  Then chatbots are a good thing :)

cyborgx7 4y ago

When I heard you could pay for the twitter checkmark, I naively assumed they would use that money to actually verify the identity of the people they gave the checkmark to and twitter was being positioned as an authority on identity verification on the internet. I think that space is ripe for the taking, and twitter was in a good spot for it, before they devalued their checkmarks into a meaningless status symbol

Gigachad 4y ago
They have changed it up a bit, there is a new checkmark that means "company official page", another one for "notable person" for politicians and journalists, and the blue checkmark which now just means paid for twitter.
- cyborgx7 4y ago
  The damage has been done. Maybe it's salvageable but I think the perception of the twitter checkmark by the general public has diminished a lot very quickly. Specially by people who pay less close attention to it, and don't necessarily take note of the intricacies of the color coding. Not saying it's unfixable, but that kind of public perception is hard to build and easy to lose.

Gigachad 4y ago

Online dating already is a huge waste of time. You are much better off going out in the real world and meeting people.