I’ll try and minimize personal info in this post so that it’s harder to dox me. I am a cishet white man without any romantic experience who is interested in trying online dating. I know that resources about doing this exist, but I don’t know how to find them without getting PUA or other harmful advice mixed in.

What do I need to know/do/have before I try this?

Which apps should I use?

Are there guides that give relatively simple information on how to avoid harmful situations with online and not online dating?

Thanks for the advice stalin-heart

  • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Am I really that out of touch that I think dating apps are a waste of time? For me, the strategy for finding a date was always the same as finding friends. Join social organizations and meet as many people as possible. Apps make it seem like a personal problem when most people are perfectly dateable, the problem is that they know 6 people and two of them are ones elderly neighbors.

    If you meet enough people, you will click with some fraction of them, and a fraction of that fraction will be dating material. Maybe an app helps with those numbers but it just seems like unnecessary extra work to me.