Online dating fatigue and the science behind it…

Online Dating fatigue is very much a real thing, especially in 2022 and I’m going to tell you why!

When you meet someone online, the characteristics that limit you from getting into relationships and building attraction in real life, aren’t the same as the ones on dating apps, and this is called the absence of gating, shyness, awkwardness, irritating sneeze and them chewing with their mouth open. These are all things that aren’t present online, but the problem is that we fill in the gaps of who we think someone is, and we make them out to be our definition of a dream partner, these gaps that we fill in are not always accurate. When we eventually meet them it all comes crashing down. This is one of the key reasons why dating fatigue takes place.

An American study actually found that online dating presents a more socially desirable self, a lot of the time they’re nowhere near as cool and polarizing as their profile suggests. People know this so much so that sometimes they even steal other people’s profile ideas to give them extra desirability.

We also might prefer the people that we meet online because of the strangers on a train effect.