Based on people's bios on online dating hobbies no longer exist.
For what it's worth, describing oneself both honestly and attractively is kind of a pain to some people. Think of how difficult it was to write college applications (For me it was like pulling teeth). Now multiply that by the insecurity people often feel between relationships and the consideration that People You May Know may end up reading that description and thinking you pretentious or basic or full of it or not actually that much of an achiever. Is Hubski a hobby? #foodski? #musicski (#hiphopski?)? But also sarcasm is my second language.
It's a pain to almost everyone except the most depraved narcissists. What I and kantos were quoting is low-effort, even in the realm of dating profiles.For what it's worth, describing oneself both honestly and attractively is kind of a pain to some people.
Men's health asserted in 2000 that if you could get a woman to laugh, you could get a woman to sleep with you. Not that there's a direct line between A and B, but sharing humor is sharing intimacy and the ability to connect well enough to disarm someone to laughter is a useful ability when flirting and establishing romance. No one wants to be intimate with someone they can't be at ease with.
I have no doubt of the validity of that. Perhaps it's just the scope of my looking glass, but such a general statement seen from profile to profile... I thought that'd be a given. In fact, I'd be surprised if/how any genuine intimacy could ensue without humor, laughter, what say you. I can relate to seeing a lack of variation with online profiles...