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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:16:58 PM EDT
Plot twist, it already has, especially because of social media.
https://mashable.com/article/dating-predictions-vr-dates-voice-notes-mental-health Dating experts predict VR dates, more voice notes, deeper mental health conversations, and even more changes in how we date. We've all faced specific pandemic-fueled challenges in the past two years, and daters aren't any different. Last year, we were forced to date through screens or not at all. This year, we had a hodge-podge of varying desires — and COVID mandates — as we all attempted to navigate dating through a seemingly-endless pandemic. Given the ride the last couple years have been, what will 2022 bring us in terms of finding love? Dating experts have a few predictions, including a continued use of virtual dating, a push towards serious relationships for some and non-monogamy for others, and an emphasis on mental health and vulnerability. Virtual dating will stick around — and VR dating is on its heels Video dates, a cornerstone of early pandemic romance, are likely here to stay, said Logan Ury, director of relationship science at Hinge. Even with in-person dating on the table (possible variants notwithstanding), Hinge users often use a pre-date call or video chat as a vibe check. According to data gathered from over 5,000 global Hinge users in December 2020, more than half (65 percent) of users planned on incorporating video dates in the dating process, and Ury said Hinge has seen this expectation come to life. . Findings from Match's 2021 Singles in America survey tells a similar story. Of the 5,000 Americans aged 18 to 75 surveyed, 71 percent said a video date helped determine if they wanted to meet in person, and 63 percent said they'd feel more comfortable on a first date if they video chatted before the meetup. Voice features have also been popular on dating apps and in the broader tech world. In addition to adding video components during those initial pandemic days, dating apps also invested in audio features. Bumble added audio messages in late 2020, and Hinge implemented voice prompts for profiles this year. "The pandemic really helped us all pay attention to the importance of audio and the importance of voice," Ury said. Voice notes add an authentic, intimate dimension to a potential match's profile in a way that text and photos can't do alone. Looking into more tech-advanced dating options, Match Group (which owns Tinder, Hinge, and many other dating apps) is planning a dating metaverse, or VR space, unironically called "Single Town." Users will allegedly be able to interact with others with real-time audio and meet in virtual spaces, like a bar, explained Match Group CEO Shar Dubey in a November investor call. A virtual space has similar dangers as a physical space, though: People in Meta's (Facebook's) metaverse have already experienced sexual harassment. As such, singles should proceed with caution dating in VR just as they do with online or in-person dating. Dating coach and matchmaker Tennesha Wood urges us to remember that we're still real people with real experiences, fears, and emotions — no matter the dating method. Daters are looking for their person (or their people) As figurative or literal existential crises tend to do, the pandemic forced us to reflect on what we want out of life. This is one reason experts gave as to why so many people came out during the pandemic, but the experience also drove daters on the whole to reflect on who they want to date. They seemed to divert into two paths: Those looking for "the one," and those looking specifically for more than one. In terms of the former, Ury said a majority of Hinge users — 75 percent — are now looking for a relationship; this is a spike up from the 53 percent of users who said they were ready for something long-term at the end of last year. These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and Match's chief science advisor, agrees. Most singles surveyed by Match, 65 percent, want a relationship in the next year. That number soars when only considering young adults: 81 percent of Gen Z and 76 percent of millennials want romantic love. This makes sense, said Fisher, as young people are usually looking for a mate, but the figures are staggering — especially compared to how many wanted the same thing in 2019: 70 percent of Gen Z and 63 percent of millennials. Not only are people looking for their special someone, but according to Fisher they're looking for financial and romantic stability to boot. More singles want a partner at an equal or higher income now than pre-pandemic: 86 percent in 2021 compared to 70 percent in 2019. The same is true for education level: 89 percent compared to 79 percent over the same time period. More singles want a lifetime partner that's emotionally mature (83 percent) than physically attractive (78 percent). "I've never before used the word 'historic,' and [this] is a historic change in dating," Fisher said. "What people are really looking for now is emotional maturity." Some daters are also looking for a non-monogamous experience. "The pursuit of fulfillment will lead singles and couples to create their own definitions and structures for their relationships," said Wood, "lending way to ethically non-monogamous relationships and the freedom to be open." More and more people began exploring non-monogamy before the pandemic, and this trend has continued throughout it. Feeld, a sexual exploration app for singles and couples, saw a jump in both men and women using words describing ethical non-monogamy (ENM) or polyamory in their profiles from 2020 to 2021, according to the app's communication manager Lyubov Sachkova. The data didn't include non-binary users. "The pandemic has brought our sense of 'normal' into question," Wood continued, "and led many to create a new normal in ways that allow them to live more freely." Self-care is more important than ever The prolonged stress of the pandemic has also engendered a focus on mental health. While there's a burgeoning mental health crisis in the U.S., most participants in the Singles in America survey, 65 percent, told Match they got better at taking care of their mental health in the last year; 73 percent said they got better at prioritizing what's important in their lives. Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. This is especially interesting considering that only 8 percent of Hinge users surveyed feel comfortable mentioning therapy when meeting someone new. Given this information, Ury urges people to be open and vulnerable about how they're caring for their mental health. "We are afraid to be vulnerable and bold about what's really going on for us," Ury explained, "but actually, when we share that information, people like us more, people feel more drawn to us, more curious about us, safer with us, [and] more likely to bring up their own mental health struggles." In 2022, don't be afraid to divulge how you're taking care of yourself. Throw the hardball In keeping with being transparent, Ury also predicts daters will be more forward about what they want from dating. She called this upfront approach "hardballing." An example Ury gave of hardballing is saying this on the first date: "Hey, I've been dating for awhile and I know I want to get married and have kids eventually. What are you looking for?" "It's not demanding a certain answer from someone," she explained, "but it's being very honest and vulnerable from the beginning about what you want, and asking the other person what they want." There's already evidence that this is what people want. In Tinder's Future of Dating report this March, their number one prediction was that daters would be more honest and authentic moving forward. Mentions of the word "anxiety" in bios shot up 31 percent between 2020 and 2021, further punctuating the mental health discussion. A more recent survey of over 1,000 U.S. users from the app Coffee Meets Bagel this fall said that 79 percent find themselves being more open and honest with matches now than pre-pandemic. Moving into the new year, daters are solid about what they want and are more than willing to express it than before. While the pandemic taught us we can't predict everything, the experts and data hint that in 2022, we'll run towards our desires with a newfound openness. Nothing like it when they tell on themselves and relegate themselves to the slampiece-tier  
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:24:15 PM EDT
[#1]
I see a whole lot of wants and desires in the survey results. Let's see if their actions follow.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:27:36 PM EDT
[#2]
I’ll never get laid
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:27:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:28:06 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll never get laid go on... |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:29:26 PM EDT
[#5]
I know some getting all the dick in the world at work.. they are so fat I am not even interested
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:30:32 PM EDT
[#6]
IMHO, I'd never date somebody who led off by discussing their particular kind of probably self diagnosed crazy.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:30:54 PM EDT
[#7]
virtual groping will be a crime by the end of this decade.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:31:36 PM EDT
[#8]
Married.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:32:10 PM EDT
[#9]
TL;DR
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:34:40 PM EDT
[#10]
Clown world is retarded. I'd rather yank my junk alone than participate in Zoom meeting "dates" and hope for pussy later.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:37:26 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Clown world is retarded. I'd rather yank my junk alone than participate in Zoom meeting "dates" and hope for pussy later. 
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:38:08 PM EDT
[#12]
The last section is just a polite way of saying that people are willing to be overtly polar in their date choices. This is nothing new:
“Trumpers swipe left” “anti-vaxxers swipe left” I really should try a FluffyTheCat style profile, but with more focus on demanding a perfect conservative traditionalist. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:38:13 PM EDT
[#13]
written by a female for females. Virtual dating quickly devolves into tit pics.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:44:48 PM EDT
[#14]
Are virtual dinners more or less expensive than real ones?
Maybe this is how the matrix started |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:47:56 PM EDT
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These users "want to find somebody to lie in bed with and talk about what [they've] been going through," Ury said, "and how hard life is and how scared [they are]." Ury predicts mental health will be increasingly important to daters in 2022. A whopping 91 percent of Hinge users would prefer to date someone who goes to therapy, according to stats gathered from over 8,000 users this November. A smidge under, 89 percent, are more likely to go on a second date with someone who mentions therapy during the first. How fucking shameful. It’s one thing to be open about mental health issues, but to literally demand your partner have them is pathetic. We’re a nation of people that take pride in weakness and mental health issues. So damn pathetic. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:52:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Are virtual dinners more or less expensive than real ones? Maybe this is how the matrix started Do they still expect you to pay if you're not actually there? Do they lead in with asking for a venmo or zelle? |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:52:09 PM EDT
[#17]
So, getting a blowjob is going to be as much work and painful as it was to read the op. Got it.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:52:43 PM EDT
[#18]
Has TL;Dr been banned?
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:53:25 PM EDT
[#19]
It’s not worth it IMO.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:54:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Has TL;Dr been banned? you mean happylife_nowife? No, he's still around. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:55:59 PM EDT
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Tfwnoqt3.14wifetoprocreatewith
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:58:29 PM EDT
[#22]
Orwellian nightmare + ready player one.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:01:20 PM EDT
[#23]
Yeah ... NO.
A big NO! Unless biological drives have changed suddenly for men, we want sex. Period. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:03:00 PM EDT
[#24]
That number soars when only considering young adults: 81 percent of Gen Z and 76 percent of millennials want romantic love.   No, no they don't... Unless their idea of romance is to see how much money and time you'll piss away on floating their social media based "life". |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:03:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: [i]Dating experts predict VR dates, more voice notes, deeper mental health conversations, and even more changes in how we date. All that stuff are buffers against rejection, which shows weakness. In-person game is going to see a revival as millions of men lose the skill to talk to girls face to face. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:03:27 PM EDT
[#26]
Yeah I definitely didn’t date through a screen. I’d just watch porn if that was the case.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:04:02 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: TL;DR |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:04:42 PM EDT
[#28]
 Demolition Man Explains Future Sex |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:08:20 PM EDT
[#29]
Oculus Quest goggles on
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:19:24 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: TL;DR |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:21:46 PM EDT
[#31]
THOT's gotta eat too
 
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:24:27 PM EDT
[#32]
Im married so dating is not really a concern.
But more girl buttholes on the internet the better. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:25:37 PM EDT
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Not only are people looking for their special someone, but according to Fisher they're looking for financial and romantic stability to boot. More singles want a partner at an equal or higher income now than pre-pandemic: 86 percent in 2021 compared to 70 percent in 2019. The same is true for education level: 89 percent compared to 79 percent over the same time period. Nope. The fuck do I want student loan debt "educated" for? Is there another shit ticket shortage coming? Because that's about all that degree is useful for, for the most that are "educated". |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:26:34 PM EDT
[#34]
 I beat my dick like it owes me money |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:27:39 PM EDT
[#35]
More and more people began exploring non-monogamy before the pandemic, and this trend has continued throughout it. Feeld, a sexual exploration app for singles and couples, saw a jump in both men and women using words describing ethical non-monogamy (ENM) or polyamory in their profiles from 2020 to 2021, according to the app's communication manager Lyubov Sachkova. The data didn't include non-binary users. "The pandemic has brought our sense of 'normal' into question," Wood continued, "and led many to create a new normal in ways that allow them to live more freely." Herpes ain't normal you degenerates. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:28:49 PM EDT
[#36]
Meh. I'm going to stick to hanging around the condom isle at the super market; where the real tramps go.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:31:21 PM EDT
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serious relationships for some and non-monogamy for others Wow! That's going out on a limb with their prediction. Kind of like the weather forecasters' annual hurricane prediction: "Some areas will see higher than normal hurricane activity, but some will see less than normal". |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:36:43 PM EDT
[#38]
Where am i ?
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:49:46 PM EDT
[#39]
No wonder suicide rates are way up.
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:51:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Meh. I'm going to stick to hanging around the condom isle at the super market; where the real tramps go. Nah, there's a better spot:  Dogma - pro choice |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:54:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:55:54 PM EDT
[#42]
Can we just legalize prostitution so I don't have to deal with e-thots?
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Posted: 12/26/2021 7:58:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can we just legalize prostitution so I don't have to deal with e-thots? Sadly no. Especially here in TX since we're retarded. https://www.nealdavislaw.com/blog/sex-crimes/texas-solicitation-prostitution-laws https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-first-state-make-buying-sex-felony-will-help-trafficking-n1276617 |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:00:23 PM EDT
[#44]
So glad im married.
Clown world ?? |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:01:16 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll never get laid There will be an electronic port for that. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:02:58 PM EDT
[#46]
Married 38 years now, been with my wife for 39 years....met her about 3 weeks before Christmas in 1982....she was living with her mom and dad and invited me over for for Christmas dinner and her first question to me was do you like chicken and sausage gumbo? So I am a lucky man and cant deal with all this bullshit going on these days.....her second question and this is a big one and has started many of arguments, do you dip your potato salad in your gumbo before eating it....
As @Twisted10 said this is a F'ed up clown world.... |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:06:36 PM EDT
[#47]
“Touch me” VR porn…..invest in it!
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:10:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Married 38 years now, been with my wife for 39 years....met her about 3 weeks before Christmas in 1982....she was living with her mom and dad and invited me over for for Christmas dinner and her first question to me was do you like chicken and sausage gumbo? So I am a lucky man and cant deal with all this bullshit going on these days.....her second question and this is a big one and has started many of arguments, do you dip your potato salad in your gumbo before eating it.... As @Twisted10 said this is a F'ed up clown world.... same here, except married 31 years and it was Italian food |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:16:45 PM EDT
[#49]
 I just want a damned blowjob. Is that too much to ask? |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 8:17:09 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Meh. I'm going to stick to hanging around the condom isle at the super market; where the real tramps go.  I got my magnum condoms, I got my wad of hundreds and I'm ready to plow |
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