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Dating apps lose their luster with college students (www.axios.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Dating apps lose their luster with college students::undefined

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[–] 92 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

College is perhaps the easiest time of your life to meet people irl and find a date or two or twenty. No surprise whatsoever that the apps are more regularly used by people who aren't in a 24/7 social mixer event with thousands of people their same age, education level, and (generally) class.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Unless you're socially awkward and bad at picking up hints.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah no doubt. Not saying there's no reason to be on the apps in college. I'm just saying there's less and less opportunity for meeting people in person by chance at social events the older you get, and the more your social life includes people from work, married folks, parents, etc.

    College is the densest pool of single people with lots of free time you'll ever experience bar none.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Then you look for the other person at the party standing there back to the wall looking like a deer in headlights and make friends or at least form a D&D group.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Parties?

    You actually don't get what socially awkward means, do you?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am, but I could still go be weird at some parties.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It also depends on your field of study and your level of social skills and social confidence too, though. I'm pretty sure social anxiety is increasing among college students which would also correspond with the dating apps losing their popularity among college students (and I would think the amount of college students actively dating has been trending down too).

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