Why Online Dating Encourages Flakiness
No common friends to complain to
Here’s a big one: online dating puts us in touch with people with whom, really the only thing we for sure have in common is functional Wi-Fi. We don’t have tons of common friends or acquaintances, the way you often do with someone you meet in real life. So nobody worries that, by ghosting someone, that person will go talk badly about them to all their common friends. Those don’t exist.