Caitlin V

And I think that the experience of

online dating is already rife with rejection.

It's already a place in which you have to be vulnerable to get a result, but the very act of being vulnerable means that you're putting yourself out there when people do not want to meet with you or they cancel or they ghost you or they say, but that hurts on a pretty deep level.

And so it's just a lot safer not to.

It's just, it's a lot safer to

not express yourself outside of what is considered acceptable.

It's a lot safer to just not be vulnerable.

And I don't envy people who are growing up in younger generation today who have had their entire life on camera, who have had selfie mode on their phones since childhood.

I mean, this is the other thing that's true about middle schoolers, at least from my experience, I'm not a parent, is that they look a lot older.

They know more about makeup and hair and all of these things.

When I look at my images from middle school, like I, that girl could not exist today.

She had braces and a funny haircut and she didn't know any differently.

There was no makeup tutorial on YouTube telling me otherwise.

I was just like slapping on whatever glitter I had, you know, from Claire.

I agree.

But I think that all of that absolutely leads to a world in which we are less excited to engage with one another because we are constantly monitoring ourselves for acceptability.

I think so, yeah.

No.

And you know what else is interesting about younger generations?

Gen Z drinks a lot less alcohol.