I met my wife via Tinder! Been together 4 happy years now I think, married 1 and a bit. It played to my extremely introverted personality, cause otherwise I would be single and alone forever, guaranteed. And it's not like I'm particularly ugly or have an ugly personality. I just had zero ways of meeting anybody other than routes I'd rather die than take, such as in a pub or... a friend of a friend.

That being said, I certainly got lucky. She worked 10 metres from my home so I immediately cut out the middleman and surprise met her outside the building after only a few days (creepy? I dunno but it worked).

I knew for a long time that the dating app mechanism itself was a dangerous tool, and when I came across this woman who was clearly not of that type, I had to do things the traditional way.

I also think it speaks to a larger problem of globalism. We see cultural elements infecting other cultures, diluting them into nothing, and the only thing that's left standing is an economic zone. Americanisms infect the UK like you wouldn't believe, it's depressing. We even had Black Lives Matter protests even though it makes zero sense in the context of the UK, where 1 black person died at the police hands over the last decade, which is proportionally fewer than white people lol.

Race isn't so much an issue there as the US. It's actually far more about class and religion. We just don't have this race obsession. Yet, it seeped in anyway, defying all logic.

Back regarding dating - it's hard enough maintaining a successful relationship between any two people even if they're from your village with the same beliefs, culture, family structure, education, language and so on.

When you start dating with a pool of 'the entire world', it definitely makes it much harder work for even the most straight-forward couple. Lord knows me and the wife have had to deal with some tricky cultural walls. We get through but it can easily end others. So yeah, internet dating ain't wise. I just got lucky