I am glad to be 45. Human attraction has so many dimensions, but online dating reduces them all to a bunch of photoshopped pictures in one fell swoop. I am an

I am glad to be 45. Human attraction has so many dimensions, but online dating reduces them all to a bunch of photoshopped pictures in one fell swoop. I am an average guy (not ugly, but not handsome either, though I was fairly tall for the standards of my country in the 1990s), and most of my 'scores' could be traced towards an ability to make people laugh. Not everyone, of course, but "they say" that I have a dry sense of humor that is refreshing. Someone else "scores" on kindness, cute goofiness, elegance, ability to play the guitar, nice smell, the ability to listen, inner energy or peace etc. Nevertheless, you need real world conversations and events to deploy such "weapons". And in the world of 2023, where online apps tend to push out everything else, all those dimensions of attraction just go away. No wonder that the dating market is becoming "skewed" by such development.