The biggest advantage to signing up for a dating app is that it can lead to a meaningful connection. The potential for a lasting relationship is there. You can match with someone and have amazing conversations that grow into a connection and ultimately into a meaningful relationship. Then all the bad matches and frustrations seem worth it.

Browse any social media platform, and you're bound to find countless posts about how people met through a dating app, decided to be together, and remain together years after the fact. It's pretty romantic and, most of all, reassuring. It gives dating app users hope that it could happen to them, too.