Stop Waiting For Dating Apps To “Work”
They make way more money NOT working.
Let’s state the obvious, let’s be blunt about it, because I’m not sure if this ever dawns on single people: Dating apps are optional. We don’t have to use dating apps, they are not required like rent and taxes, but for some reason, the single community still sees them as mandatory. And any time I point out that instead of getting angry, frustrated, or upset at dating apps (again), we’re allowed to just delete them, I’m always met with the same response: “But then…how will I find someone?!”
Let’s ignore the fact that we’re ignoring the fact that we haven’t met someone on dating apps yet, because we came by this blindside very, very honestly. We ignore the fact that online dating and dating apps aren’t working for us because we keep seeing them work for other people.
“Well, she met her boyfriend on an app, so apps work!” This is the logic. We take something that happened to someone else and assume that very same thing will happen to us. We believe this so automatically that we rarely if ever acknowledge that in years of giving dating apps chances to “work,” they never have.
In addition to giving dating apps chances, we also give them our money. We hear about someone else’s win, and we keep pumping money into the same slot machine they used, hoping that we’ll win…
