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Stop the Madness: How to Survive the Sea of Dating App Clichés!
“Dating profile cliches that aren’t the flex people think they are”
I follow a lot of dating IG’s, Youtube’s, TikToks, and so forth. Why? Because I need to know what’s out there, and I love to study and see how dating and relationships evolve in the age of information and stimulations of the brain via social media.
**Just a heads up, this is a venting piece**
Because of this, I’m constantly bombarded with commercials for dating apps such as Bumble, Hinge, POF, and Tinder. They praise online dating and promote this as a positive thing that will get you your dream person.
Are they right?
It is, and it isn’t.
You can indeed meet incredible people on an online dating platform, it’ll take a lot of work, depending on your social standing, but you can. I’ve had many great relationships off of dating apps/online dating. However, to actually find someone on there is HARD WORK! You gotta get through so many trash profiles and bullshit just to find someone decent, especially as a bloke. For every ten matches, I get. Women get 100. I’m not saying that to…