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Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by groby_b on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:30PM (#22251179)
Or you could be adults and talk to each other. Telling a friend you want to cancel is usually hard because you haven't practiced setting boundaries.

This app doesn't help. It just postpones the problem until you meet somebody who doesn't need the app, except now you're even further behind in practicing that skill.

I get the desire to automate interactions. I really do. I have days where I really would rather not see people at all. But it doesn't work. In the very best case, if it works as designed, it deprives you further of human interactions, making it even harder outside of the app context to interact.

Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by hombre_fatal on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:40PM (#22251689)
Also, parent post laments that they may go out with a friend even if they hate it.

Sheesh, if you're going to go out with me, your friend, just to be nice yet hate it, stay home. Have some respect for both of us and just cancel.