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CMV: We should normalise single people asking friends to be set up

Background: 

Many people seem to feel that dating is "broken", and that dating apps are partly responsible. Whether this is because dating has always been rough and dating apps are just making a difficult experience more accessible, I don't know. I do think that apps aren't ideal for a number of reasons. Companies' motives lean towards monetising loneliness rather than enabling matches, which is an indicator of success that's hard for them to advertise. There's a big gender imbalance in the userbase for popular apps, which reinforces unhealthy behaviours among several (esp. heterosexual) users, e.g. people using the app mostly for validation; people basing their self-esteem on their number of matches; people making faster, more superficial judgements than they would when meeting each of these people IRL. 

Proposal: 

People should play matchmaker for their friends/acquaintances more often. Obviously, I don't mean that people should try and set up unwilling/incompatible single friends freely, or that people should constantly bug their friends to set them up. Rather, people seeking to date should mention to their friends more often that they would be open to being set up on dates. Going through your friends means there's some level of screening for safety, which is more than you'd get on a dating app (although it is biased towards matching people who are more socially similar). 

Reasons I think I need my view changed: 

I'm a Redditor. I honestly don't know if I'm describing a social phenomenon that already takes place pretty often and just isn't as wildly successful as I think. I'm also not sure if this sort of trend would be somehow socially detrimental.
gpt
Friends already do this if they have a potential match. But if you have to ask, they don't have someone for you at that time. If you pressure them to find someone, they might do it, but it probably wouldn't be a good match.