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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 18, 2025

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apps are for meeting people

No one actually turns up for dates, though. They always mysteriously get sick or suffer personal life disasters like epilepsy or dead grandmothers and have to cancel. Or just unmatch the day of the date.

I think it might be an age thing. I've had friends complain about this but it almost always involved women in their 20s. I haven't dated anyone under the age of 30 on it and, while I have had cancellations, they always rescheduled and the date went off. In fact, there was only one that was truly last minute, and she rescheduled immediately. One thing I will say is that I have done the slow walk thing if it's a girl farther down on my list; i.e., if I'm talking to two girls and I'm more into one than the other, I'll wait until I have a date set up with #1 before scheduling with #2 to ensure maximum schedule flexibility, and it may involve my delaying a response, but it isn't the kind of thing that I'm too worried about. And even if they are always cancelling, these aren't people you'd even be talking to if you were just relying on meeting people in the wild, so there's that.