How about instead of asking anonymous Internet strangers about it, why don't you use it if you enjoy it enough for the effort, or stop using it if it's not. It's not rocket science dude

Fuck what we think. This is a vent disguised as a question.

I dont use it. I think its to validate mid girls and to make guys addicted

Yes.

Online dating is for two groups of people:

1. Bottom feeder women who are trying to get attention and emergency dick

2. Top tier men who are just setting up fallback pussy

This is more of an observation than a question.

I have an idea for a really interesting project: why don't you set up a spread sheet and do a proper analysis for inputs / outputs for the last 12 months of OLD activity?

Inputs Time and costs. You would have to be quite honest about the actual amount of time that you put in. All those hours of scrolling, responding to messages, checking your platforms. Setting up logistics etc. Costs are probably easier - meals, drinks, platform costs, transport etc.

The time element will be much larger than you think.

To round it off - calcluate a 'shadow price' for your time input. The fair way to do this is to calculate the marginal cost of any extra time that you work - so that would be your overtime rate (if your job has overtime).

Then you add the money value of your time input plus the actual costs for a total estimage of real cost of OLD

Outputs This could be any clear benefit that you acheive, that gives you joy / pleasure. So the temptation is to say 'shags'. But that really depends on your preferences. You might get joy out of going on a date and meeting a woman, having a convo and walking in the park. You might.

You might not enjoy that part - if not, you have to move that time (the time spent walking in the park) over to the 'costs' side of the balance sheet and account for it in dollars (ie. 3 hours date walk in the park, at $100 per hour).

If you did this cost / benefit analysis, I think you would be shocked at the actual cost of what you are getting.

Please do this project for us, it would help others to learn about the true nature of OLD

It has long been my suspicion (without any experience of OLD) that OLD is really a time sink for men.

The issue is not really just the online bit of it (which is bad enough).... it is where it leads to ... the D part of OLD. The issue is 'dating'.

The very concept of dating is beta. Men should not be dating. Dating is a concept that belongs in the 1950s and earlier - when women were virgins and we wanted to get to know each other before we committed to marriage and then child rearing.

Then we had the 60s and 70s, the free love era. Dating went out the window, and young people got to know each other through the medium of sex. We would have sex with each other, and hang out, to see if we liked each other enough to have an LTR, with the possibility of marraige and kids later.

Then we had the 80s, with the AIDs scare. Then something happened in the 90s - girl power and 'modern feminism'.

Modern feminism is basically nothing to do with actual feminism, because it has no intention of striving for 'equality'. Modern feminism is a totalitarian form of male abuse for the privilege of women. And what they did as the great switcheroo - they resurrected the concept of 'dating' - the idea that a man should bring out a woman on a date, and pay for drinks and food, and open her door and treat her like a princes - or to be more precise, like a virgin in the 1950s.

Dating is beta. Dating is pandering to the gynocracy. I would say to all young men - don't go on dates. Don't play that game.

And most young men would say - sure, I hate going on dates, they're boring, expensive, and you have to listen to a lot of mouth noises and you get few shags.

The reason you are getting few shags? BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING BETA, GOING ON DATES.

The only reason I can see OLD of being any use is if you use it exclusively for setting up easy hook ups. But it never seems to work out that way. You can't really put up a profile that says 'Hi I'm chad - looking to smash, no dating, just come over to mine and I'll rail you, bring wine, pay for your own uber home'.

Should i give up Online dating completely?

If it doesn't work for you then why do it?

Simply put yes.

2015-2018 was the glory days of tinder; it has since died out. While there are a few diamonds in the rough; the vast majority of chicks on tinder are exactly as you described.

It’s not worth the effort and it’s a waste of time. I rip it during my morning shit and that’s about it. I get laid significantly more often by just going out to the bar and talking to a hot chick I actually want to fuck in real life.

"setting up dates to get flaked on 90% of the times"

You are doing something wrong.

I should stop contributing to the inflation of pussy

You answered your own question.

I am thinking the same. It used to be match, playful banter, date, and then maybe sex. It all felt extremely real and natural. Now I swear woman are all reading some female dating strategy bullshit and I fucking hate it.