Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
This is pretty disturbing considering how necessary dating apps are today.<p>Let&#x27;s say you get banned from Tinder and consequently Bumble.  What do you do now?  You can create fake accounts, but they&#x27;ll eventually find you.  Coffee Meets Bagel?  Plenty of Fish?  Match.com?  <i>Don&#x27;t make me laugh.</i><p>It&#x27;s already bad enough that women find it strange that a guy doesn&#x27;t have an Instagram account (this has been my experience 90% of the time), but at least as someone who is dating you can work your way around that.  But if you get shut out of even 1 of the few main dating apps, you&#x27;ve lost a massive pool of dates and potential life partners.  Unless something has changed since my foray into that scene, these days those apps are pretty much a requirement for getting any meaning amount of dates.<p>I can&#x27;t help but feel bad for the younger generations of today.  I was fortunate to come of age during the tail end of where it was still largely acceptable to meet and approach women IRL while online dating was kind of a sideshow.  Today, what were once the best places to meet other young single people, are not only where it&#x27;s become unacceptable to meet new people at bars and clubs or meetups but they also are the places with the most COVID-masking (yes, this DOES affect attraction and being able to read the other person).  For most young guys and girls, you&#x27;re probably stuck with Tinder and Bumble unless you are a 9 or above.<p>The other day I got permabanned from Nextdoor, not because I did anything wrong, but because I didn&#x27;t use my real name.  Of course the name that I used <i>is</i> the name that I use in real life and as a professional.  I logged in one day to find that I had absolutely no access to my account.  There was no read-only access to my messages, my activity, settings, or anything.  Just a page that said I&#x27;d been banned for not using my real name but that I could contact their customer service or whatever.  Imagine if that happens to you on Tinder right as you&#x27;re about to ask someone on a date, or to your Wells Fargo account as you just got a paycheck and are ready to make that big purchase.