As much as everyone hates dating apps, it’s dating apps. Keep an open mind and go on dates looking to just get to know another person. Apps put a large swath of people in your view that otherwise you may not have crossed paths with.

Otherwise, church, bars, hobby meet ups.

you don’t make friends on dating apps. you find dates.

I met my current friend group through dating apps. You gotta keep an open mind when meeting people - you’re there to get to know them as a person. Sometimes that leads to dating, sometimes it’s friendship.

Women tell men they want to be friends as a way to reject them softly. They don’t mean it.

I’ve got plenty of friends who are men. You’re only shooting yourself in the foot to believe these gendered things about women and men.

No, that’s my life experience. No woman from a dating app has ever wanted to be my friend unless she was trying to get in my pants and I wasn’t into her.

You are a woman, you have a lot more social luxury and I bet you 100% all the ‘male friends’ you met on dating apps are secretly hoping one day you will ‘wake up’ and date them.

The people you meet on dating apps tend to know other people and you can build a friend group. You know, if you’re likeable and friendly.

I think it’s more telling that no one wants to be friends with you. That shouldn’t be extrapolated to all women don’t want to be friends with men.

You don’t know me and to make such assumptions is only good to further isolate yourself from society.

So manipulate people I meet on dating apps to date their hotter friends?

Now you’re just arguing for dishonestly and manipulation.