OLD and SNS apps claim to provide value that is generally not delivered unless you are elite, or above some kind of threshold for attracting enough people to make it worthwhile; within a month or so you should be able to determine where you stand, and if you are below the threshold the only rational thing to do is cease use and do anything else with your time; popularity will not come from improved skill in using them; it's not like programming where years of practice will make it better, so said apps can easily deceive people with prior skill acquisition experiences, more hope, or long-term thinking.
If we exclude the rare and random rewards of friendship or good information (better than you'd get through other uses of time), a rational person would:
- keep using online dating app if it were a semi-reliable source of dates with people they might like
- keep using social networking app if it were improving their distribution through being retweeted/recommended, or semi-reliably connecting them with relevant people
Just because it exists does not mean that it is necessarily for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cG-lPEhm2o 'Small YouTube Culture | Big Joel'