I tell all my single guy friends to watch out for online dating.

It is a sad, soul-crushing place where good guys go to die a slow death by way of ignored messages and empty inboxes.

You will part ways, and you will probably, almost certainly, begin again the next day with another “Hey there…” message from the next contender.A 2015 Vanity Fair story claimed these apps are responsible for a growing hookup culture, where anonymous sex has replaced traditional romance, because they give straight young men the impression that there's a surplus of available women.But Tinder and its ilk (apps like Ok Cupid and Hinge) aren't entirely to blame, argues freelance journalist and former Fortune reporter Jon Birger in The Washington Post. In the book “The Unguide to Dating,” authors Camerin Courtney and Todd Hertz write, “There is one practical issue that, for our money, rises to the top: Where are all the men?Both anecdotally and statistically, the disparity in the ratio of single women to men in the church is alarming.” The duo goes on to list statistics and theories as to why women outnumber men in the Christian dating world.