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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m in my fifties and divorced. I never liked approaching girls to ask for a number so the apps were a blessing. It took that whole insecure awkward walk out of the equation.

Now being a disposable thing that people are constantly trying to get a better upgrade on, that I hate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I could see that, and I had that trouble myself when I was young and probably still would now, but the whole 'swipe left' 'swipe right' thing and having to go through a bunch of random online chats with random people until you find one willing to go get a beer with you and then hope that you contact them back after their unstated but required minimum number of days and that they will agree to get a beer with you again... it just sounds so exhausting. Even just making a profile which would have to be tailored to get people to want to date me sounds exhausting. And I barely even have any pictures of myself, let alone ones I think would work on a dating profile. I don't have the energy anymore. I think I'd just end up being single for the rest of my life unless something happened by chance. I have a few terminally single friends my age. They appear to have stopped looking.