Yes. And the last semi-something I had was my asking him out.

Here’s the thing. In real life, you meet a person, like them, and ask them out. Online, you ask them out so you can meet them and see if you like them. It’s vastly skewed towards the young and conventionally attractive, and I just don’t think it’s going to do me any favours at all. If I meet anyone, it’s going to be…

Honest to God, I don’t think that it is.

I am not online because I came of age in the era of constant male attention, and then I had a health trauma (brain injury) that basically took me out of the dating scene for twelve or so years..... When I finally felt that I could enter the arena, again, everything had changed....

I’ve been approached and asked out on in public a few times in the last year or two (not trying to humble brag), in a respectful, “I acknowledge that you’re a human being and not a thing,” not-street-harassment kinda way. It’s awkward, because I am SUPER married, and that revelation inspires some pretty sheepish…

I’m now in a relationship (almost a year) with a dude (we’re both in our 30s) I’d met socially as a friend of a friend. I knew him vaguely for a few months before I decided I had a crush on him. I knew he was on Tinder and had been on a couple of Tinder dates. I often let my friends play with my Tinder account because…

Guys will still pick women up for sex in person, but ask them out on a nice date? Ehhhh. It seems exceedingly rare.

Two über-successful professionals.

I’m over 40 and met my husband on gay.com. Not even I can recall actually meeting up with people in real life first—every date I had pre-husband was arranged online (except for my high school BF—we met on the school’s lit-journal editoral board...in Alabama in the early ‘90s). The concept of a cold-open meeting, of…

This is a crazy hypothesis but what if these two crazy kids met at a rich person party, but that didn’t seem cool enough so they LIED— just like I lied about every boyfriend I “met at a coffee shop” because I was embarrassed about online dating, but in reverse, because now it’s trendy to meet on Tinder?!