Yes, I've done many of them. They're great. > The only thing this does to avoid developing social skills is to remove fear of rejection by making matchmaking a

Yes, I've done many of them. They're great. > The only thing this does to avoid developing social skills is to remove fear of rejection by making matchmaking anonymous. Right, that's what I was talking about. This is a critically important social skill to be learned, not to be avoided. Learning how to deal with the fear of (and actual) rejection is a critical life skill, both in dating and otherwise. Avoiding it seems harmful to me.