@peachy yeah I’ve watched the first three or so episodes, planning to finish it this weekend! Completely agree with absolutely everything you’ve said, especially the part about finding someone who can ‘fit’ the criteria better. I’m also completely immune to rejection and am really not surprised if someone doesn’t answer my text or ‘ghosts’ me. It’s like my standards are exceptionally high yet low at the same time, it’s really strange. I feel like before all these apps if I had have gone on a few dates with someone and kind of liked them I would have kept seeing them, but now there are just so many distractions and other people and it kind of feels like I’m always looking for another option. I guess it just makes it harder to focus on one person. This hasn’t happened to me yet, but I think people are also less likely to want to ‘work through’ problems etc because they know there are quite literally thousands of people out there at a touch of a button. I realise how horrible this sounds! I’m actually a nice person I swear, haha.
@NickiPower it’s a related series but this “turned on” edition has lots of eps about stuff to do with sex/sex work. Definitely Tinder is rather superficial in that you base a lot of who you match with on their face. I don’t base it entirely off the face of course, the general vibe I get from their profile/description is a factor too. I just feel before apps people probably tried harder to make things work in the initial dating period. These days even the slightest thing can turn me off from having a second/third date with someone. And despite the fact that there are so many people using Tinder, I am finding it harder and harder to click with someone because I’m so unreasonable picky (probably because there are thousands and thousands of people out there). Bit of a vicious cycle for sure.
