ONLINE DATING APPS IN LOS ANGELES: THE CURE OR THE VERY PAIN

There was a time when Los Angeles was the land of angelic humans. Well today, it just shelters shiny people who are extremely lonely inside. They might seem to be living the time of their lives as Hollywood harbors so many dreamers and dream achievers who adorn the night life of LA. Yet, almost all of them go to their beds alone, or with a temporary partner for the night. People of LA never seem to be alone, but most of them are always lonely, because their weary souls are still searching for the one. If the circumstances have aggravated to this extent, you can’t blame Los Angeles to be one of the rudest cities in the US.

The irony is that this very city is the birth place of the first ever dating app. LA dating apps make the city a hub of online dating. Meeting someone online is a cake walk for the people of this city, yet they live a lonely life. What went wrong? How did Los Angeles end up here? Well, the answer is very simple, dating apps in LA themselves. This city is affected by the plague of what we call a paradox of choice. With so many options and avenues to date, they basically cannot choose one or stick to a choice for long, be it the application or the person. Hence, they keep themselves entangled in the rut of swiping only to either be ghosted or ghost a person once they find someone better.

Also, the angels of this city live in a constant FOMO, the FOMO of something better. Therefore, they keep looking till they feel like they have found the absolute best. This literally means that they never stop looking (even married people) as something like best or perfect is non- existent, especially in the context of humans. No wonder people have multiple divorces in Los Angeles.

The city never stops, so how would they stop without finding a solution to this super severe predicament? Hence, many resolved this problem for themselves by either relocating or hiring matchmakers. They spent such huge sums just to get a proper relationship, that serious relationships became a luxury everyone couldn’t afford. The city is already expensive, and now something as abstract as love also needs to be bought. Technically, this isn’t the solution that suits everyone.

Sometimes, you need to look upside down to look for the right way. Similarly, we need a reversal in the way people date today. Imagine, you could meet a person to talk instead of just talking about meeting in chat bubbles. What if dating could go back to old days, but still be as convenient and cheap as today. The suggestion isn’t to give up on dating apps and spend your life savings on a matchmaker or resort to your mother and grandmother for help. The idea is to come up with something, hopefully an application that combines the best of both the worlds. This does not seem impossible as the requirements are very clear. All that’s needed is a perfect blend of technology and creativity, thus the perfect medicine to the singlehood disease affecting people of Los Angeles.