50 dates! With 50 different guys. This lady must be picky 
I deleted them too.
Waste of time
I wish people would have more success with them. Its pretty tough to meet people “the old way” these days
You mean by getting out and interacting with them?
Yeah most people are either tight with there one group of friends or they are just inward in general because of technology.
In my case the tech helped lol.
Oh, I agree. I met my wife online nearly 24 years ago through a now defunct dating site. Most of my married friends met their spouses through work, church, or community activities – I’m kind of the standout here. I suspect that I’m an outlier with online dating as I am with so many other things.
Where I think online dating helped me was that we corresponded a fair amount before our first meeting. It helped me overcome my social disadvantages on the first F2F date because there was familiarity. She said it also helped her look past my issues. I had warned her in advance that I’m an Aspie and I have difficulty with things like making the correct amount of eye contact so she wasn’t bothered by it.
I was hoping to get to know some things about people beforehand as to ease the awkwardness in the beginning.
You wouldn’t see me in a bar or a club! And also I have no friends to introduce me to someone
These apps were a lifeline it seemed, but it’s just basically just a load of inactive profiles - with likes hidden behind a clever paywall that drip feeds you matches until you put your hand in your pocket!
I tried it the old way in my teens, and took the rejection like a pro.
I think this is why volunteering and participating in community activities (church, slow pitch, etc.) has worked for so many of my friends in terms of meeting. They get to know each other inside of these activities and then they decide to know each other better outside of them.
Nice. For me I felt it was easier to not really chat with them online. I just arranged a meetup and did a fun activity to see if we would enjoy each others company. We did some drawings at a coffee shop.
I still have the drawing 
I am a severely out of practise Catholic, so church isn’t an option. But community activities I looked at on meet-up.com before Covid and there was a board game club, however it has gone now
Will have another look on there now, but there isn’t as much on there
My therapist in 2019/20 suggested it, but then Rona happened
I saw your post before the edit. Reach out if you need a photographer at no charge. I’d be happy to drive to where you are and I can afford to book my own room for a few days, no problem.
Feeding daz hippoz ain’t cheap meng, you need the savings.
Thanks mate ill keep it in mind 
I got 1 match when I tried Tinder. The other matches was bots.
Please do. It would honestly mean a lot to me to be able to support you here.
I tried Yahoo dating many moons ago. Too many people come of as being god’s gift to the universe.
The dude I went out was nice but still a bit of a Yahoo.
I am happily singled. Though I am thinking of separating from myself for a while as I am not getting along with myself.
But seriously. Too many quacks to duck with on online dating…
I applaud the people in marketing when they make those online dating app commercials. It is a horrible deception.
Times are changing. In the future we will have bots that are chatting and calling people as well as other bots. They will instruct us to do things in the real world while not being in it. 
I can relate to the 4% sucsess rate. I used a dating app and went on maybe around 25 dates over a 10 year period. Of those 3 dates were sucsesful in the sense they developed to something meaningful.
However the dates that went best were maybe the ones I had best gut feeling about. But still when only 3 profiles show up in 10 years…I’d probably have much better luck hitting the streets.
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