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Do dating apps actually work, or am I wasting my time?

The short answer

They work as an introduction mechanism and are poor at everything after that. If you treat them as a way to meet people quickly and then get offline, they work. Treated as a place to talk, they do not.

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What they are genuinely good at

Volume and filtering. You will encounter more plausible people in a month than in a year of ordinary life, and you can state your intent up front in a way that is awkward in person.

What they are bad at

Everything about attraction that is not visual, and everything about a person that only shows up in the room. This is why an excellent text rapport regularly produces a flat first date.

It is also why meeting sooner is better: the app cannot tell you the thing you most need to know.

When it is actually the app

If you have fixed the photos, written a bio that can be answered, and run two months on a well-populated app with no conversations at all, the local pool may genuinely be the constraint.

That is much rarer than it feels at month one.

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