Online Dating Is Depressing Me. When i was online dating, i depressing getting worried that i'd been single for two whole years —as if that was a lot. A depressing new study about online dating indicates a problem that is reverberating across every aspect of our society.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. The first big problem with her article is that she doesn’t mention the different experiences that male and female customers presumably have on. Online dating gives us the power to decide who we want to give our attention to.

But rejection, from a potential match.

Anne rettenberg wrote an article for psychology today that is critical of the idea of online dating [1], she cites one example of a man who visited a prostitute due to being depressed at his lack of success in online dating to support her claim. But rejection, from a potential match. In short, wading into the online dating world has left me a bit depressed about finding someone new. Right after i decided to stop going on okcupid, i actually had to stop my hands from typing the o into my browser when i wanted a work break (ok i slipped up a few.