Experimenting with dating apps an eye-opening experience

For the past several months, I’ve been half-heartedly toying with the dating feature on Facebook. It’s like a lot of other dating apps and websites in that you have to write a profile about yourself, answer a bunch of insightful questions and post a few pictures, but it’s different from most dating sites in that it’s totally free, which is probably the best feature.

My kids told me about it before the pandemic and being the wild, free spirit, adventurer that I am, I decided to give it a try. I wrote what I thought was a pretty witty profile. I answered all the insightful questions, and I uploaded a bunch of cool pictures of me kayaking, jumping out of a plane and riding around on my motorcycle.

Once I clicked on the button to make it live, I just put my feet up and waited for all the “likes” to start pouring in. Only they didn’t. They didn’t even trickle in. They didn’t come in at all. At first I thought I had hit the wrong button and no one could see my profile, but then I found out that it was indeed live for everyone to see.

After the first few months I began getting the odd “like”, but they were from women who obviously hadn’t fully read my profile, or saw my pictures. When I say “women” I actually mean three women. Three women