I increasingly feel like online dating is a net harm to society.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
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
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Replying to @Kirsten3531
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?
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
It feels easier to say "you're acting inappropriately, stop it!" now
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Replying to @Kirsten3531 @GeniesLoki
Yeah it seems like it’s more appropriate to say “this isn’t the place for that” when it’s very clear that there IS a place for that
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Replying to @DistractedAnna @Kirsten3531
What do you have in mind as an example of "not the place for that"?
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Replying to @DistractedAnna @Kirsten3531
Right, that makes sense (and is indeed obviously inappropriate). But I think it was already obviously not the place for it and there were already places for it before online dating?
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @Kirsten3531
I don’t remember before online dating existed but I remember before it got normal — and it did seem way more accepted then to hit on ppl doing normal everyday stuff like shopping, commuting, etc.
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Fair enough. Well I'll acknowledge this is a positive aspect to having a well-understood place for single people to meet that I hadn't previously properly appreciated. I still think that online dating is a net negative, but ideally any replacement would also serve this function.
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