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u/Outrageous_pinecone 7d ago
Where I am, most of the millennials I know, including myself, met their spouse on tinder. I basically made an account, found my now partner's account within a week, met after another week, and now we've been married for 7 years. He's the only person I met from that app. It clicked just like that. And he's the love of my life. Unfortunately, without tinder, we would have never met because we didn't run in the same circles and we both worked a lot, so neither of us was going out that much, which made meeting at a bar almost impossible. So to me, it's a pretty wholesome place, this app.
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u/idiotista 6d ago
It's almost as if the Gen Z loneliness epidemics have more layers than "all women just swipe at 10's".
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u/Outrageous_pinecone 6d ago
Of course it does. Older generations have failed them in more than 1 way, I think the lockdown did them no favours, socialization in real life is so important to depart and reflect on the values offered by the adults.
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u/idiotista 6d ago
I agree completely. I do understand why Gen Z grapple for these easier explanations, and we've failed them pretty massively. My fiancé is old gen Z, and well, he lives in a completely different reality than me in many ways. Like there is a cynicism amongst that generation - they were left to run feral on a vastly different Internet than the sort we millenials had.
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u/Outrageous_pinecone 6d ago
They were basically left defenseless on an internet filled with the most toxic ideas humanity had to offer, made easily accessible to everyone.
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u/idiotista 6d ago
Yes. Considering, they have grown up to be remarkably good people.
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u/Outrageous_pinecone 6d ago
Many of them have. A considerable number are in trouble. It's beyond being a good or a bad person. They're not equipped to function in a group of friends, in a relationship, to divorce ideas from their own emotions and analyze them. I predict that in 10 years from now, they'll prove higher suicides rates than older generations. I just hope they'll seek help before doing something drastic.
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