[armchairhacker]

Online dating is so bad. It’s probably good for a certain type of person who is extroverted and has a cookie-cutter personality and dates based off shallow first impressions, but even then I doubt it. For both men and women in different ways.

The fact that “online dating” as it is now is considered a serious alternative, makes it seem that the current dating situation is really messed up. My understanding is that the still-reliable way to get dates is to be in a community where everyone knows each other and most people date within the community (e.g. small town or school or job). But if you’re not in a community it’s a lot harder, because there are so many creeps and trolls everyone is either closed off or weird, with the very rare viable partner who just hasn’t been exposed enough to become closed off themselves.