Can we be friends? Dating apps say sex isn't everything in a post-pandemic world

LOL An app for that??? Can't they disconnect from their mobile even for a second? What happened to face to face communication? What is their malfunction? Companies are making robots that communicate with people while people have forgotten how to communicate with each other!

An app for everything these days. I might need an app to work in my private garden or to even wear my underwear next time.

@Burning Bush

Why do you need an app?

Just talk to your neighbor.

This.

If you go out and talk to your neighbor, and moreover, if you go out and just talk to random people out and about, you'll see that this online phenomenon of perpetual conflict is pretty much limited to things that use electricity. People are still pretty darn cool out there, even more so now as we come out of lockdown. Everyone is hungry for human contact.

If you're looking for "just friends" and you can't make them organically out in public in this environment, you need to reexamine yourself.

-This opens up the total available market from targeting only singles to singles and married people.

Because married people never used dating apps? Hmmm.

-These trends are here to stay.

They are an addition, not a replacement. They will be less popular when the mainstream media starts running scare stories on them - 'I made friends with a mass murderer/pervert/Tory MP without realising it' etc.

Centuries of plague outbreaks, the 1918 flu and the HIV outbreak didn't stop people mating like bunnies on heat, and Covid definitely wont.

@Burning Bush - Most people have nothing in common with their neighbours other than the street in which they live. These apps are to match lonely, likeminded folk who share an interest in re-enacting the Battle of Jutland in their bath tub, collecting pebbles, worshipping Satan or whatever.

Why do you need an app?

Just talk to your neighbor.

No matter how many times I ask, my elderly neighbours never want a threesome.