How Online Dating Makes Us Bad At Dating IRL
And quick exchanges
We also don’t really think about how long someone takes to respond online. Well, we do, but if they take a while, we assume it’s because they’re busy, and not because they’re thinking of what to say. We are unprepared for the IRL experience of sitting there, with someone, waiting for them to formulate a response. There can be lulls in the conversation that we aren’t used to.