Dating Apps Are Dying

Everything I’ve watched or read online seems to indicate that dating apps suck for an overwhelming majority of people so good riddance?

What I can’t figure out is what comes next. Singles events (at a bar for ex)? Meet up type events where your doing something with other single people? Friends try to set you up with someone?

I’ve been married for 10 plus years so I have no skin in the game but it’s an interesting topic to me.

I’ve been married for a long time too and we met on the greatest dating website of all time: Craigslist Personals.

You entered your gender, age, a written segment, and an optional photo. No algorithm, no matching. Everything written was searchable and published via RSS. All communication went through email. No app, no subscription, and the only ads were sex workers.

In the context of this article, it forced the user to engage by reading people’s blurbs instead of just swiping for brain chemicals like Candy Crush. You felt like you were talking the other humans and the website was just where you went to meet them.

If such a site were recreated today, users would want to run the RSS feed through a slop rejection filter.