New norm for dating?

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A friend of mine recently broke up with his long term girlfriend and back into the dating scene. He uses this Chinese dating app (TenTen?), and been talking to this girls for weeks. They did phone calls and FaceTimes, but not once they meet in real life. This seems really suspicious, but she never ask for money or personal info, he swear that's how these dating apps works. Is that the new normal? A"virtual relationship"?
 

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Its called the talking stage. But yes its a new normal. People don't want to actually meet. But by the same taken your friend needs to take the initiative and ask girls out within a few days. Wait too long and into the friend zone you go. If they balk or delay delete and move on.

If I was dating now I would have a scrubbed social media, good pictures by friends who have a hobby in that. No lies, no filters.
 

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A friend of mine recently broke up with his long term girlfriend and back into the dating scene. He uses this Chinese dating app (TenTen?), and been talking to this girls for weeks. They did phone calls and FaceTimes, but not once they meet in real life. This seems really suspicious, but she never ask for money or personal info, he swear that's how these dating apps works. Is that the new normal? A"virtual relationship"?
a man must have his priorities straight
 
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Weeks?

No, that's not the new norm for dating... if you're not meeting up in person within a few days, she's not interested and has other motives for keeping the "virtual relationship" going.

Hooking up has never been faster. Women sort through hundreds of men on those apps and select who they want to meet up with and make it happen in a jiffy.
 

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Its called the talking stage. But yes its a new normal. People don't want to actually meet. But by the same taken your friend needs to take the initiative and ask girls out within a few days. Wait too long and into the friend zone you go. If they balk or delay delete and move on.

If I was dating now I would have a scrubbed social media, good pictures by friends who have a hobby in that. No lies, no filters.
SO now women have moved the Emotional dumping - (swapping, psychological posting ) getting high ( adrenaline rush jumping to feel good) , before the date. Wow to me this is new cowardly trait to life and avoid paying your own meal. Also lonely and depression is getting up there.
 
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Popular dating apps in Asia


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Dating Apps are tougher than they look.

Every time you connect with someone new, or get a new message, you get a little hit of Dopamine… and eventually that lessons when it’s the same person messaging you.

So yeah… people will match, and chat for a bit never meeting once, and then just move on… and move on… and move on.

I am willing to bet if I created a new POF acct I would see a ton of faces still there from years ago.

Somebody needs to create a dating App where once you match, you get 7 days to set up a date… until the match disappears.
 
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A friend of mine recently broke up with his long term girlfriend and back into the dating scene. He uses this Chinese dating app (TenTen?), and been talking to this girls for weeks. They did phone calls and FaceTimes, but not once they meet in real life. This seems really suspicious, but she never ask for money or personal info, he swear that's how these dating apps works. Is that the new normal? A"virtual relationship"?
Yes this is the new norm. I just heard a white woman I know, she seems to be doing this.

People are to afraid of many things. I knew a chick that went 1 hour for her BF for a year. Now this has changed to dating app and maybe meet once every 3 months face to face and some romp.
The way she spoke it's almost like she was trying to avoid arguments with the guy. FWB to new level. Narcissist trying to compensate for their lack of intimacy , compassion, empathy and sympathy. Also save on gas and time. She made it sound like she does only a weekend day only. I call it psychological post or a new high.
 
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Dating apps have become the proverbial “Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?” In these modern Internet times, we are increasingly starved for connection and attention.

Women that aren’t in healthy relationships need to be reminded constantly that they are still desirable. Each day that ticks by means her youth fades a little. She uses the dating app to reassure herself she still has it.

This is the problem with dating apps, a lot of girls never have any intention of meeting up; they exclusively use it to validate their day-to-day level of beauty.

You will have more success having an active social life interacting with women in real life; e.g., classes, events, talking to strangers.

Dating apps are a time and money sink. Dating apps are good at creating the illusion of action.
 

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And no, I am not that smart; but this guy is! This is where I got the info for my post above. He bases his conclusions on actual academic research - not goofy marketing tripe or people's personal accounts.
 

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Many women friends of mine say they won't meet a guy until they first chat in the dating app, then test the waters with multiple phone calls to get the vibe. Too many horrifying first date experiences.
 
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Many women friends of mine say they won't meet a guy until they first chat in the dating app, then test the waters with multiple phone calls to get the vibe. Too many horrifying first date experiences.
Okay are these American women in the US? or Canadian friends in Canada?

Tell them to give you brief examples and gives us a list of the top ten commons one you hear from them. Also how old are they like 20's , 30's 50's.

The reason being TikTok women must be telling the truth. I am really curious to know.
 
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lol I'm not going to interrogate my friends
I'll tell you their ages range from early 20s to late 40s

And the horrifying stories aren't mine to tell the details but from memory it's everything from physical assault, sexual assault, and persistent attempts to learn where they live (not just "downtown" but their actual home address) despite being told that's not going to be shared on a first meetup. In general, us men worry about being called a creep or accused of something but in general women worry about assault. Not because they're lying. Not because they're crazy. But because it happens to so many of them. So yeah they want to catch a vibe over a call before meeting because from their real experience it's unsafe to meet a lot of men.

Tell them to give you brief examples and gives us a list of the top ten commons one you hear from them. Also how old are they like 20's , 30's 50's.
The reason being TikTok women must be telling the truth. I am know really curious to know.
 

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Many women friends of mine say they won't meet a guy until they first chat in the dating app, then test the waters with multiple phone calls to get the vibe. Too many horrifying first date experiences.

You are what you attract
If these women constantly attracting degenerates. They should ask themselves why. They are no different from red pill whiners that constantly whine and complain about women all day online.
 
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You said women are what they attract and that they're just whining after I commented that women in my life have been assaulted, and its those assaults which is why they won't meet a guy from a dating app until they have multiple phone calls to check the vibe.

I never mentioned being assaulted.
 
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