I wouldn't survive dating in 2024

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Honestly 2024 seems so scary to me dating. I'm so glad l had my glory days in the 1990s before social media, mobile phones and the internet. I appreciate how difficult things are now. Good luck everyone.

My "glory days" were in the 70s and early 80s and I feel the same way.

Can you guys elaborate a little? I'm struggling to see how it's significantly different.

I mean, I can see that there are a few channels for meeting people that didn't exist before but i don't see how that changes the fundamentals of two people meeting and finding out if they like each other or not.

My glory days were in high school.

Sometimes people on here suggest that the only way people are dating these days is through online dating apps when that’s not the case. It’s just another option.

Some recent stats:

https://www.forbes.com/health/dating/da ... footnote_3


https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads ... n-the-u-s/

While online dating is an option, it’s not the only option. People are still meeting and dating in old-fashion ways.

https://hackspirit.com/online-dating-statistics/

The numbers are greater than 100% in my last quote. I suspect it’s because sometimes people can meet online through friends (etc.). Also to be noted is that meeting online doesn’t necessarily have to involve an app.

I seem to agree with the majority of people polled that online dating apps have made things easier. I haven’t and won’t use them, but it is another option that DOES work for some people according to the numbers. Even if people use online dating, it doesn’t mean that they’d necessarily be opposed to meeting someone through more traditional means. It’s just another way to “put themselves out there.”

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Millenials & Gen-Z are well known to not be having as much sex versus say, boomers, since those groups have far more in-home entertainment options than their predecessors did and don't need to leave the house to be entertained.

Add into the mix the relative economic decline of western countries, now, versus the time where you could buy a house with a year or two worth of salary, and it isn't a wonder why people can't even afford to date and if they can - they will be balancing the risk of financial expenditure versus any possible reward with such a punishing economy.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/sex-millennials-young-people-economist-risk-allison-schrager-a8893836.html

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-millennials-less-sex-20160802-snap-story.html

Dating is hard for me to accomplish because of my disability and transportation and unreliability issues!! !

Which is why I am getting Community Compass' assistance with all of this like the planning and actual executing of the dates!

That should force things to move along

Most people can afford to date because dating doesn’t need to be expensive. People can go out for a cup of coffee, go for walks in a park, go to inexpensive restaurants, watch a movie at one or the other’s houses, etc.

Theoretically, yes.

But in practice, that's not always the case for obvious reasons.

I’m speaking from practice/experience. I lived in extreme poverty for years. Poor people often date, live together, and marry. There’s nothing unusual about it.

You sound like a good date from an economic perspective.

There are a lot of snooty people who won't go on cheap dates though, lol.

And I'm not being sexist/aiming that at women.

My brother for example has the idea that he isn't having a good time unless he spends loads on a date. I think there are a lot of people like him.

I wouldn’t want to date someone who was snooty about money. Been there, done that. It wasn’t good.

Agreed 100%

I'm not exactly what you would call "rich" either...

Ah yeah.

I didn't mean to implicate anything negative toward you, Mikuro.

That's an interesting point, that young people are just in their homes more. So they don't have big groups of people gathering and meeting socially. That seems likely to me.

I'm less convinced by the its too expensive to date thing.