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Post by slashpop on May 14, 2020 15:56:07 GMT 10
I remember reading a number of articles about dating apps losing popularity a while back mainly due to feeling meaningless and not being effective in connecting people.
I think dating apps were all the rage and peaking around 2012-2017 being this exciting new thing to try. So many people I know I have stopped using them. What are your thoughts?
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Post by John Titor on May 14, 2020 17:18:51 GMT 10
STDS rising killed it and bots and people not looking for relationships anymore, its funny how the rise in Herpes went up when Tinder was at it's peak.
Okcupid peaked around 2014
Tinder peaked later around 2018
I don't know how it is in Canada tho
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Post by slashpop on May 15, 2020 5:51:37 GMT 10
STDS rising killed it and bots and people not looking for relationships anymore, its funny how the rise in Herpes went up when Tinder was at it's peak. Okcupid peaked around 2014 Tinder peaked later around 2018 I don't know how it is in Canada tho Yeah and just not entirely being what people expected them to be, also considering too little or too many people being on them among tons of other issues. There were a lot of articles written about lack of dating app satisfaction from 2017-2019 for sure. Corona just makes it worse for all that. There definitely was a sense that dating apps were being talked about as something you needed to try back in 2012-2014 and almost kind of revolutionary, but over time that sort of lost it’s spark. They aren’t necessarily bad and still are popular but they don’t seem to be where they were at.
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Post by jaydawg89 on May 15, 2020 12:30:20 GMT 10
Never used them and always thought they were kinda dumb. According to google trends though, dating apps are still very popular. What I find interesting though is that STDs have seen a sharp rise since 2014 (around the time dating apps really took off). Overall, I think it will be a good thing for dating apps to lose popularity, they aren't doing much or anything good.
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Post by #Infinity on May 16, 2020 18:01:34 GMT 10
Oh my god, if dating apps are really on their way out, hallelujah! F those things and all the needless distress they caused me.
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Post by John Titor on May 17, 2020 9:15:52 GMT 10
Oh my god, if dating apps are really on their way out, hallelujah! F those things and all the needless distress they caused me. Dating apps are so disgusting so glad I got off that crap
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Post by slashpop on May 19, 2020 22:29:43 GMT 10
Oh my god, if dating apps are really on their way out, hallelujah! F those things and all the needless distress they caused me. Technically people are using them drastically less and abandoning them even more so now because of corona. The apps are even cautioning people about meeting. Most people aren't meeting obviously, so they will decline even more. I see them as a failed experiment and a fad of the 2010s, that has some uses here and there but ultimately cannot replace the way people meet in real life which is a problem because so many people migrated to them and no longer open up as much in real life even though a huge amount of people are not satisfied.. The biggest problem is that don't have enough quality filters and they weren't designed to force and ensure serious, honest, legitimate ways of interacting with people. Real life match making was much better in this regard. The open nature of it invites people who are users, secretly one night standerers, players or catfishers etc to waste people's time or at worse cause trouble or harm. I'm pretty sure at some point in this decade someone will create something much much better than tinder that will direct people to have a more authentic dating experience than these apps.
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Post by John Titor on May 20, 2020 8:19:14 GMT 10
Oh my god, if dating apps are really on their way out, hallelujah! F those things and all the needless distress they caused me. Technically people are using them drastically less and abandoning them even more so now because of corona. The apps are even cautioning people about meeting. Most people aren't meeting obviously, so they will decline even more. I see them as a failed experiment and a fad of the 2010s, that has some uses here and there but ultimately cannot replace the way people meet in real life which is a problem because so many people migrated to them and no longer open up as much in real life even though a huge amount of people are not satisfied.. The biggest problem is that don't have enough quality filters and they weren't designed to force and ensure serious, honest, legitimate ways of interacting with people. Real life match making was much better in this regard. The open nature of it invites people who are users, secretly one night standerers, players or catfishers etc to waste people's time or at worse cause trouble or harm. I'm pretty sure at some point in this decade someone will create something much much better than tinder that will direct people to have a more authentic dating experience than these apps. Most of the people I met on Okcupid had severe mental problems or were former meth/coke addicts.I met a few friend from it some decent people. For the most part as you said its more of a fad of the 2010s. It was cool when it started and then it became evident the reality of the situation. I also noticed tons of people looking for a third person for their fiance polyamorous cult invitations . I think I had swiped on like 14 people on Tinder that eventually asked me to join cults.
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