Twitter user’s viral thread on wanting to date the ‘old-fashioned’ way, sparks reactions

Team Udayavani, Jun 11, 2021, 1:52 PM IST

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Dating was all about dinners, meeting at cute cafes, and other outdoor activities but with the pandemic, meeting people has been replaced with dating apps, video calls, and Netflix parties.

A Twitter user sparked a conversation online as they wanted to go back to the ‘old-fashioned way of dating.’

@jzux in a tweet wrote, “Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (he sells me onions, I sell him jars of spiced peaches).”

The tweet referred to a 1998 Young Adult novel Holes, where a boy named Sam exchanges his onions with one of the protagonists for a jar of peaches.

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (he sells me onions, i sell him jars of spiced peaches)

— trash jones (@jzux) June 8, 2021

The tweet went viral and netizens were quick to indulge in the thread and started making versions of their own.

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (an undercover major falls in love with me and my saree at first sight at the college where I teach)

— S?? (@whineapples) June 9, 2021

deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (we make eye contact across a crowded room and die tragically as a result of our feuding families)

— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) June 9, 2021

manifesting that every time they look at you chaand mera dil chandni ho tum starts playing

— dhoklahomie (@dumplinghoee) June 9, 2021

Deleting my dating apps because my Post grad entrance preparation has taken over my life .

— Tanvi (@chimi_changaaa) June 10, 2021

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (while on a europe tour stuck with a jerk who drops me while dancing, rips my blouse, mocks my engagement, then stalks me to another country, deceives my family and sabotages my engagement).

— B. (@hippiecentric_) June 10, 2021

Connections are build offline. But why do you think we as a generation have become so much obsessed with love? As if we feel a sense of failure, it’s media that has implanted these thoughts in our mind.

People generally find loved ones when they are not even looking

— Nakshatra Sain (@nakshlife) June 10, 2021

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (bangle ke peeche teri beri ke neeche)

— Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) June 10, 2021

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (marrying a man to keep my sexuality hidden and overtaking his estate then accidentally falling in love with his half brother’s wife while trying to take him down) pic.twitter.com/PIz42Qhe8I

— kim seohyung fan (@KlMSEOHYUNG) June 10, 2021