Helena Bonham Carter stars in an ad for Bumble UK

[arellaj]

https://instagram.com/p/CIwgSNtjqCH

In addition to wanting you to buy a vibrator, Helena Bonham Carter wants you to join the dating app Bumble! Dating is hard enough as it is and during a pandemic, it's harder. Placate your nosy family members who ask you why you're still single during the holidays by joining a dating app I guess?

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Comments

[thespockingdead]

I gave dating apps my best shot last year around this time, and it was one of the most demoralizing and depressing experiences of my life! Never again lmao

[kjesta]

It feels super awkward. I find it so hard to try to connect w ppl on an app if the elephant in the room from the word go is 'will we or won't we (be romantically compatible/date/fuck/?), there's no breathing room for friendship first.

[thespockingdead]

Yes, it's so uncomfortable and unnatural! Every conversation had all the stress of a job interview. I especially hated when guys would immediately ask if I wanted to go out - I wouldn't just agree to go out with a random stranger who approached me in public and asked me that within a minute of meeting, so why would I agree to it on an app where I can barely even tell what this guy really looks like?

[kjesta]

Srsly! I mean I get wanting to meet bc you might have a completely different chemistry in person but I grew up in the generation that was told to not give out RL infos to internet strangers and a lot of it has stuck, just meeting some rando is still an effort to me. I don't mind if it's someone I've been talking to longer like my online buddies but it it's abt dating from the get go... I'm v distrustful.

[thespockingdead]

lmao same, I guess all my grandma's warnings about how everyone on the internet was secretly a kidnapper really stuck with me. I also can't fathom even WANTING to meet someone based on seeing a couple pictures of them and exchanging like 5 texts total. I don't even know if you can hold a conversation yet, tf do I want to put in time, effort, and money to meet you? I had not one, not two, but THREE separate men ask me if I wanted to get high with them by the FIFTH MESSAGE, like what on EARTH, dudes, slow your roll!

[comava]

(i don't actually love this but lj doesn't have any other suitable ia option imo)