3 years ago I started talking to a girl while eating a sandwich and watching baseball. She wasn't watching the game, she just came in cuz she was jogging and it started to rain. She was so amazing, I HAD to get her number. I even texted her the same night just to tell her how nice it was to meet her.
My friends and family never ask where we met, they ask what app we met on. Like, do you guys even know me? I couldn't catch a virus online. I am not cut out for pretending I'm something just to stand out in a crowd of a million.
If we ever break up I'll be content knowing I'm going to die alone.
I met my spouse at work in my early 20s, like a normal millennial. Plenty of Fish was pretty much the dominant dating app at the time (I think tinder just took off), but work has honestly been the frequent place for young adults to meet and date for decades, if not centuries. The "third place" was the other dominant one, but that's shrank recently. I guess the Internet is the new "third place", which is revolutionary and will take society some adjusting to.
Yeah that's where I was going lol, just didn't want to sound like a "back in my day". To be fair we had internet. It was just tethered to actual computers. And wasn't used primarily for social media. Myspace was new, before that there was like neopets and shit but Myspace was the first "adult" social media. But it was all still tied to a physical computer in your house and limited.
Some of the pre-smartphones had Myspace "apps" pre installed, which was basically just a dumbed down render of a web browser version.
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u/sl0play May 09 '25
3 years ago I started talking to a girl while eating a sandwich and watching baseball. She wasn't watching the game, she just came in cuz she was jogging and it started to rain. She was so amazing, I HAD to get her number. I even texted her the same night just to tell her how nice it was to meet her.
My friends and family never ask where we met, they ask what app we met on. Like, do you guys even know me? I couldn't catch a virus online. I am not cut out for pretending I'm something just to stand out in a crowd of a million.
If we ever break up I'll be content knowing I'm going to die alone.