Theyāre also rejecting booze culture and online all the time. There may yet be hope for the human race.
I liked dating apps in the 2010ās but these days its a joke. Firstly they are so heavily monetised. Secondly the ratio of men to women is so skewed that women end up with literally hundreds if not thousands of options to chose from where if youāre just some average dude you will be lucky to have ten. Iāve read that on some dating apps the sex ratio is 10:1. I also think for me personally as someone who who doesnāt work its just a bad combination.
I used OkCupid in early 2010s and people wrote a lot about themselves so you could kind of see what a person was interested in and were about before you messaged them. Now days even that app is all just swiping based on photos which is not an ideal way to know if you will get on with someone.
I feel too much of a creep going around approaching women IRL. Iāve only done it a few times in my life and its just awkward. I think the best way of meeting a partner is to just keep going to new events. Iāve had some interest when people meet me IRL.
Oh yeah. And like nearly all the dating apps are owned by the same company which I really donāt like. They have no incentive to actually improve their services or offer better value because if you donāt like it they own pretty much all the competitors. I think Bumble is one of the only mainstream dating sites that isnāt owned by match group.
Bingo. Thatās the best way these days. Always was, really.
In the UK thereās a new string of social events that have started gaining traction. Itās called āBored of Dating Appsā and essentially itās a dating event where they get a bunch of strangers together who are single (apparently) and socialise. I went to one and while I didnāt get any numbers, it was fun.
Back in my day we called those pubs 
Yeah it probably felt more natural to meet someone at a pub/club before. the dating event thing I went to felt a bit contrived. And chaotic too, it was packed.
Ive moved around a lot and lived in hostels and shared houses in my twentys and worked a lot of jobs, then in psych hospital a lot in my 30s i met a lot of people that way but only a handful i gelled with as potential friends or partner. Basically what im saying is i think you need to meet a lot of people to find your match. Not ideal doing it online really