GeniesLoki

I increasingly feel like online dating is a net harm to society.

It's been really nice for me for it to be okay for me to be like "don't hit on me!" in an increasing number of social situations, but I agree there's a cost to single people

I feel like this is attributable more to basic human decency than online dating. It's not like people don't still hit on people in person?

It feels easier to say "you're acting inappropriately, stop it!" now

Hmm. No, sorry, I don't get it. Hitting on people is in fact perfectly appropriate, and hitting on people after they've expressed a lack of interest was never appropriate, and I don't see how online dating changes the dynamic?

I'm confused. You've said that online dating has changed where and how you can't hit on people. Here you say what's appropriate hasn't changed, and I agree. But your initial post implies you understand that actually things *have* changed in practice?