If you actually expect people on dating apps to be genuine, that's on you unfortunately. It shouldn't be that way but it is. Most everyone using those forms of getting to meet a prospective mate treat it very much like people online here in the forums. Sometimes you get to know someone, and become friends, but the multitude of others you are summarily dismissed by. Well actually here people tend to even treat you better than online dating sites... The veil of personal anonymity is used on dating sites like a fortress. Once you're dismissed, you get completely shut out. Not to say that's entirely bad, for it is keeping you from someone who obviously would not have been right for you to begin with, and likely saved you from much more pain and torment in the future. Just because someone "Likes" your profile or picture or whatever, 99% of the time they're either just testing, fishing for complements for their own narcissism, or are p_rnbots. If they're truly too beautiful and are talking to you when true beauties IRL don't give you a second glance, they're definitely p_rnbots or a scam of some sort. Once you get one from that 1%, it's normally someone you have no interest in for whatever possible reasons. It sucks, but it is the same on every dating site no matter how evolved they say they are. Distance is a huge Nope! That's almost always going to never work out.