Online dating de-contextualizes people and no amount of filtering can change that. When you meet people IRL you have some context for them and want they like t

Online dating de-contextualizes people and no amount of filtering can change that. When you meet people IRL you have some context for them and want they like to do. For example, I met my wife as she was the roommate of a new male friend I'd made. Because of our shared friend, I was pretty confident when she said she liked biking or hiking, that it was at the same level I did, because that's something that friend group was in to.