In the past few years, but especially since 2019, we keep hearing about how online sites and dating apps have seriously damaged the dating scene- for men, but also women.
There is much to be said for the first chart detailing how couples meet. Anecdotally it seems to be true for me. Most of my friends met their long-term partners (and some wives) online. And these are productive, well-adjusted, relatively outgoing and attractive guys (most are at least 6'1 tall too). The ones that didn't meet online are a clear minority.
So even if online dating is a sausage fest, enough women go on these apps for the male masses to keep trying. The biggest question for me is why so many women feel compelled to use OLD.
Underpinning a lot of this is imbalanced sex ratios - decades ago single men were scarce, but today single women are scarce. Independent of OLD, this explains a lot of inceldom. https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-saw-it-coming.html
There is much to be said for the first chart detailing how couples meet. Anecdotally it seems to be true for me. Most of my friends met their long-term partners (and some wives) online. And these are productive, well-adjusted, relatively outgoing and attractive guys (most are at least 6'1 tall too). The ones that didn't meet online are a clear minority.
So even if online dating is a sausage fest, enough women go on these apps for the male masses to keep trying. The biggest question for me is why so many women feel compelled to use OLD.