Dating apps were supposed to make dating easier. In one sense, they obviously did. You can open your phone and find hundreds of single people nearby without leaving your sofa. You can filter by age, location and interests. You can talk before deciding whether someone is worth meeting. Twenty years
There’s a strange assumption that going out is something you’re supposed to do with other people. Dinner needs company. A cocktail needs a date. A concert needs a group chat. And walking into a bar alone can somehow feel like announcing to the room that nobody wanted to
A dating profile has a surprisingly difficult job. In a few photos and a handful of sentences, you're trying to give a complete stranger enough reason to stop scrolling and start a conversation. The good news is that you don't need to sound exceptionally clever or
Meeting people online means making decisions about strangers with relatively little information. Most profiles are exactly what they appear to be, but fake profiles, impersonators and scammers are an unavoidable part of online dating. No single clue proves that a person isn't genuine. What matters is whether several
Meeting someone you've only known through a screen always involves a little uncertainty. That's part of what makes it exciting—but it's also a good reason to slow down for a moment before turning an online conversation into an offline meeting. You don'