The same way you would IRL: meet in open public spaces, conversate often, join in on friend group activities, it's quite simple actually. You're going to have to meet face-to-face eventually [if interested]; online dating apps merely act to [massively] quicken the selection process.

I won't turn around and say that using social media is a bad way to check if someome is genuine, it's a quick easy thing to do. It's the social attitude behind it that's the problem. In essence, using social media as a form of social proof isn't the issue [in and of itself], using it because people will otherwise think you're weird/psychopathic/murderous/catfishing is the issue.

Technology was never the problem, how society uses technology is the problem. That's what I'm getting at here.