5 Questions To Ask Before Logging Back In To Your Old Dating Apps

Out With The Old, In With Inner Peace

1) Does The App Invest Your Time Wisely?

Time is money. The way you choose to spend it now, has an exponential effect on the trajectory of the rest of your life. Your job takes up most of your day so your remaining free time should be maximised to effectively help you look for what you want.

Making intentions clear is critical to not wasting your time. Ensure that the dating apps you use allow you to clearly state your intentions in your own words and hear the intentions of others. This stops you from spending your evening, investing energy into a conversation with someone who you’ll never speak to ever again afterwards.

2) Are You Satisfied With Who You Have Already Met On There?

If a dating app has a track record of consistently delivering low quality matches and time-wasters, it’s time to go. Is the 1 good chat really worth going through 110 bad ones? Those odds are rubbish. All bets off.

You wouldn’t keep going to the same restaurant if the food was awful, or keep going to the same club that didn’t play your type of music. So why would you keep going back to an app that sells you dreams but in reality can’t perform?

3) Does The App Allow You To Accurately Present Who You Really Are?

Remember the Instagram vs. LinkedIn, vs. Facebook, vs. Tinder challenge? That’s a great example of how we modify our online persona depending on who we think is watching. This can be used effectively when it comes to achieving professional goals but what about dating? At what point do we stop being who we really are and start presenting in a way we think will get us the most attention?

Looks are important but what if we made it the second quality you discover about someone instead of the first? How many more potential friendships and relationships would that reveal? Expand your opportunities by dating with your personality.

4) What Is Your Match To Chat Ratio?

1000 right swipes, 100 matches, 10 messages sent and 1 response? If that sounds like a familiar, it’s not your fault. You’re using an app that was designed to reward when you match with people instead of actually dating them. Apps designed this way treat you as replaceable and disposable when comparing you with their millions of other users. It’s time to delete.

5) Do You Feel More Stressed Out After You Log Out?

Users of swipe-based dating apps are 2.5x more likely to experience depressive symptoms. Only the top 4% of men regularly receive right swipes whilst 60% of women have experienced sexual harassment. The number of likes and matches you receive can also negatively impact you self-esteem and make you feel as though you are worthless because other people don’t want to give you the time of day.

Dating isn’t a competition. It’s time to get off the hamster wheel of validation and start using dating apps that allow you to communicate effectively and be intentional in what you are looking for.

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