You use dating apps like a social experiment.
You're not really on dating apps to DATE. You're on dating apps to OBSERVE. To ANALYZE. To form theories about human behavior, attachment styles, and the sociological implications of swipe culture. You have opinions about the algorithm. You've noticed patterns in who matches with whom. You could write a thesis on the semiotics of mirror selfies. Your conversations are deep, intellectual, and go places most first messages never go. The problem? While you're busy analyzing the experiment, you forget to be a PARTICIPANT. You're so in your head about what dating apps MEAN that you forget to actually use them for what they're FOR. Sometimes a swipe is just a swipe. Not everything is a case study.
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