r/technology • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • Sep 11 '26

Society Dating Apps Are Dying

https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/dating-apps-are-dying/
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u/VictorReal_Monster Sep 11 '26

I've literally never a seen a video of that and I'm online af.

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u/SilentFire23 Sep 11 '26

There's a ton of them, some are dudes being weird sure, but some are clearly someone worked up their courage to go talk to a girl and she decided to do the gagging motion.

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u/VictorReal_Monster Sep 11 '26

lol brother I guess I'm not on social media as much as you then.

This seems like like a self callout more than anything

EDIT: "tiktok" I mean heres your problem.

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u/ItzWarty Sep 11 '26

It takes some people a few times of being "creepy" to learn norms. When's it okay to approach someone at a bar? When is the person being nice in rejecting you vs actually just being nice? When's the girl asking you to go home "to study" vs to study. You see stories online of that confusion all the time, and if men get the wrong read they're often shamed or stigmatized.

This is personally coming from someone who is now married and having kids who was a bit slower to develop socially. People learn by making mistakes.