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by non-entity 2321 days ago
On the occasion I am out in a place I can be openly social (maybe once or twice a week), everyone I meet irl tends to be a decade or two older than me. Sometimes they also serve as a good way to filter people who you would not get along with.

> I felt a bit off after half an hour of dismissing people based on just their looks and a couple of lines on their profile.

I agree and many profiles are particularly bad (I wager maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of tinder profiles I see either want to get married right away or are just looking for IG followers / validation) but I feel that, particularly if you're young, they're the standard for finding people.