Is Online Dating a Bad Idea?

Is the art of spontaneous conversation in the real world lost and if it still does happen is it bound to lack intent because there are endless alternative options to swipe through later? So this question comes from Lorna in Manchester, who particularly enjoyed pre-Christmas marks rant about strikes. She favours a sort of dating system where they have sort of mixers and events where you're allowed to talk to someone as opposed to just swipe into options online. That's one of the things about the League of Pragmatic optimists when it was running. We had lots of people ending up dating each other because they went to a place where they were all positive, helpful, proactive, non-partisan