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- Did the Hinge, Bumble, Tinder, all that jazz,
so Plenty of Fish.
- I feel like there's just more pressure on like,
an immediate connection.
I think that might be because of the apps.
By the time you meet up, you feel compatible,
and even if you're not going on a date with someone you met
on an app, it still feels like, all right,
like if this is an immediate connection,
like let's swipe away from this.
- Dating 10 years ago.
I mean, I was a lot younger,
so there was definitely a lot less communication.
- The dating apps were newer,
so I think the way people were,
the way they acted was more reminiscent
of the way dating used to be.
Now it's just like, swipe, swipe for the next best thing
and the grass is always greener.
- I feel like back then,
I would like, see a red flag and be like,
"Ooh, it's Six Flags!"
Like, I'm ready to have a great time,
but now, it's kind of like as soon as I see something
that I'm like
that doesn't look right,
then I'm a lot quicker to not really entertain it.
- I use a lot of dating apps.
- Everyone on the university,
they were also on it.
- I just went for the attractive model kind of face
and if it was close to that, I swipe right.
- When it comes to dating,
I can't say that I was like, dating in the past.
I can honestly say like, dating apps have helped.
- I was in Boston maybe two years ago in the summer
and someone said, you know, let's meet at
whatever bar was nearby,
and I went
and sort of looked back because he was late to showing up
and then he had deleted his profile,
which means he either planned to dupe me
because he was not who he said he was
or (chuckles) he was just playing games.
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- I downloaded Tinder.
I've had Hinge.
I've had OkCupid.
I've had Bumble.
I've had Plenty of Fish.
I've had Coffee Meets Bagel.
I've had,
I've had every dating app of mankind.
It doesn't work.
- My impression is that everyone has like,
the next best thing or another option,
especially with dating apps
'cause if you see one thing that you like,
there can be another one three swipes later
that you're like, oh, I kind of like that one better,
and then you might have passed your soulmate.
- Men just don't communicate very well
and it sucks because you're on this bridge
of just talking on the phone, like texting,
and you haven't gotten to the actual meeting point
'cause something always blocks.
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- No.
Every person I've ever met on the internet,
like, dating apps, like they always turn out to be like,
a little cooky.
Like, just like, it's just always a mess.
- I think for me, like, I much prefer to just meet someone
like out and about or like a friend of a friend.
- Well, I mean I would just meet people in events.
I just go to interest groups.
Like, let's say I wanna go
to like a real estate interest group.
- I like meet cutes.
Like, oh.
Hi.
Oh, hey.
Oh my god, you're kind of cute.
So are you.
Like I like that,
I like that.
Or like organic building of relationships,
like just
natural,
you know, meetings, that's it.
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