Love... uh.. finds a way.
," as this strange and sudden situation proves, perhaps being an online dater isn't as bad as people make it out to be. As a spokesperson for the app tells me,"as a certain area becomes more affected by physically-isolating measures, Tinder is seeing new conversations happening there and those conversations last longer.
After all, in between other IRL distractions, last-minute things that pop up, and the desire to just kick back after an exhausting day, flaking on both ends tends to happen more than we'd like to admit. And though I may have just gotten lucky with these particular FaceTime dates, I will say that my craving for some facsimile of intimacy has spurred me to put some more effort into trying to cultivate a meaningful interpersonal connection.
I'm not the only one who's noticed a blatant shift in our habits and dating dynamics on these virtual dates. One friend, Blair*, also touched on this idea while recapping her own FaceTime session with a guy she met on Hinge, explaining that it was somewhat jarring to no longer have the crutch of touch present."Where you would normally fill an awkward pause with some physical intimacy, now there's no buffer," she explains.
Like in Blair's experience, a lot of people seem to be more open and receptive when it comes to social interactions as a whole, even in the midst of any doubts about virtual dating. Within my own small sample size, I feel as if I've been connecting with more people who I may not have necessarily followed up with if our in-app conversation had fizzled out in a normal context.
This idea of a more open-minded approach to dating is dovetails with another interesting experiment in self-isolation romance: The personality-first dating premise of viral Netflix series,
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