The fact is that the odds that in 10 years on social media that I would not by chance be exposed to some nice girl who wanted to be with the guy she bumped into on social media are so slim it should be obvious that I am not so uninteresting as the way my contacts on social media happened during this time went down.
It's just inconceivable. And I need to point out that during this online drought, I did meet a really nice lass, even while living on the street, and I can guarantee you I'm far more charming than 99.99% of the guys you find at the homeless drop in centers in Amsterdam. How I can be good enough for a one in a thousand girl, a spunky, outspoken, clownish girl, who I would have married in a heartbeat, and yet some 7 years of facebook and not one.
It's just ridiculous, and I think it's time someone pointed it out.
The thing that brought most people to social media was dating.
One of the earliest instant messengers was called "icq" I Seek You, and it deliberately made it easy to find potential partners. Even on that platform I had several encounters one or two of them leading to physically meeting.
It is like, they pulled all the genX people onto social media with this hook, and then they made sure that only commie-friendly people had relatively open access to a real social group, as a way to keep us from realising that this shit was stopping us from having a social life.