How to meet someone in real life from online

Sometimes I wonder what it was like for people dating in The Before.

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You’d have to meet someone – in a club, or on the street or whatever – and then give them your number on a piece of paper (provided someone had a pen), and then you’d have to wait for them to ring your house phone, or vice versa.

Without the ease of the best dating apps, or just sliding into someone’s DMs, dating was a purely face-to-face endeavour from start to finish, with a few phone calls or emails in between. It's a lot to even think about.

That said, plenty of people have developed dating app fatigue in recent years, and prefer to go analogue.

Which makes sense: The incessant swiping.

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The inability to know what a person is like from a few photos and some contrived words on a screen. The fact that chemistry is a physical phenomena – a hand brushing your leg, them leaning over to light your smoke, that sort of thing.

Turns out that dating apps were never going to be the “fix all” that we once assumed they might. Re-enter: meeting people in real life once and then dating them.

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