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Dating apps move to friend zone in search of profits

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By Daxia ROJAS

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Easy to get a bird in real life as long as your not weird or very fat or something

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Easy to get a bird in real life as long as your not weird or very fat or something

Or transparently dishonest.

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Jimizo

Maybe, but I never was when I met them, always was meself, don’t act different than when you’d meet anyone else.

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Maybe, but I never was when I met them, always was meself, don’t act different than when you’d meet anyone else

Fully agree. Pretending to be something you are not is a bit pathetic and people can see right through it.

Very unattractive to all people abd not just in a romantic sense. All very sad.

These kind of dating apps and social media in general see a lot of this. Weirdos.

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Jimizo

Well, I never used them, when I was split from my wife I spoke to my mate at his bar and he mentioned a nice lady who had lived in England and was now divorced and single and asked if I’d like to meet her. Did and hit it off right away, lots of things in common, strangest one was she had lived less than a mile away from me in South London in 96. Funny old world and all turned out alright and now she’s a stepmom to my son and they get on really well.

That was a stroke of luck, you won’t often get it all working out and click fast, some people meet loads before they find anyone that’s right you see.

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She expressed doubt people would pay in the long term.

"It's probably easier to find friends in your area if you join some activity or through your job," she said.

Echoing countless people that are thinking the same.

Seeing how the apps are giving up trying to put people into romantic relationships and that is unlikely the current boom of friendships will last, maybe the next step are going to be apps that pair people with accounts in "Only fans" so they can be lonely very efficiently...

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Virus

Onlyfans is hookers, should be banned

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Not new information, read the comment again.

And also reference needed, a personal preference is not an argument to say something "should" or not be done.

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Well, apparently I was too mild on my prediction, it seems the new trend is for companies to make an AI clone of the user that then can go have dates with the AI clone of other users to find a perfect clone-clone match...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/technology/ai-dating-apps.html

Clones talked to each other on “first dates,” which I could check in on. While my energy for responding to messages on dating apps is fleeting, my clone could message hundreds of profiles a week on its own.

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