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The woman I am going to marry is the kind of person that would never use a dating app. Literally the same week I gave up on online dating, she asked me out at work.
Never had success trying to meet girls on the internet. Sometimes you just have to get lucky and hopefully there's someone attractive who is interested in you wherever you work/study/hang out.
Meeting girls on the Internet absolutely works, it's just that you should do everything except what you're told.
Do NOT use dating apps. They are, for the most part, designed to keep you hooked and never actually find a worthy person. If you find your love, you stop being their client.
Use regular social media/weird and obscure places crafted with love/communities by interest/whatever, just not dating apps.
I found my girlfriend in an online chat, and we're together for 2 years. She moved in with me, and we couldn't be happier.
I feel like nowadays people like if someone doesn't have a social media and doesn't or never had any sort of dating app
I remember back in 2015-ish a guy I knew at work claimed he couldn't get traction on dates because he didn't have social media. I was like, I'm confident that is not the primary problem here.
But yeah, today there's a bigger backlash against big social media. There's more than just weirdos who don't have Facebook et el
I've been judged negatively for not having social media but never by anyone I was actually interested in dating. Being obsessed with social media is a big turn off for me.
It definitely helps to weed out people. I work in a kitchen so it's pretty social and I've had people tell me they can't find me on insta or whatever and then ask what I even do in my free time which lends itself to more organic conversation instead of just judging how I run a social media profile or something. I also don't take pictures like it never crosses my mind unless it's my cats being funny so if I did have a social media I think it'd actually make me look less interesting