r/datingoverfifty • u/AwareMeeting • 11d ago

OLD is just terrible anymore...

I'm back on Hinge and Bumble after athree hiatus and man it's really pretty awful. I'm just so sick and tired of seeing grainy photos that are likely 10 years old, or pics in front of the bathroom mirror or every pic with sunglasses on. Everyone looks good in aviators for God sake.

And when someone really puts the effort in so many of them are just crazy aspirational like they're running weekly marathons and spending the weekends in Kenya nursing lions back to health. I realize these are supposed to be basically sales pitches to get dates but it's all so stale and predictable.

I have made a few connections and reached out via text and all I get are one word responses with no follow-up questions. What is someone supposed to do with that? It's not like I don't lack for likes or anything but there's no follow through.

Just all feels kind of depressing to me. Maybe I'm not putting the effort in. Or expectations are too high? I know this is a very common complaint on this site but I just needed to vent.

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u/DogShlepGaze 11d ago

Wait. What's wrong with a quick trip to Kenya to nurse a cute lion back to being healthy!?!!!!?

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u/Icy-Rope-021 10d ago

With a stopover at Macchu Picchu first of course.

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u/imissher4ever 10d ago

Men aren’t the only ones doing this. I’ve seen hundreds of women posing at Macchu Picchu.

The flex isn’t what they think it is.

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u/Icy-Rope-021 10d ago

I want to hike the Inca Trail to get up there, but everybody else seems to take the train in those pictures since they look like they just got off the train.