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RFC: Let’s Disrupt Dating Apps
- The incentives of dating apps actively discourage building algorithms that show compatible matches, since finding a compatible match means you no longer need their product. You really are put in a room with total strangers, most likely the wrong kind, instead of those with similar interests and values. If you met the right stranger, you’d hit it of... See more
from Dangerous Dating Protocols Web by Shreeda Segan
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- The problem today’s daters face is that the mass adoption of online dating apps has not only eroded incentives to switch from explore to exploit mode, it has made exploration itself boring and dysfunctional.
from Dangerous Dating Protocols Web by Shreeda Segan
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- Increasingly, consumers (Gen Z’s especially) are seemingly ditching Bumble, Hinge, and Tinder in favor of apps that better cater to their preferences and behaviors. In the last 18 months or so, a new paradigm of dating apps has emerged, many of which draw upon growing behaviors around gaming, live and short-form video (Curtn, Lolly, Snack, Filter O... See more
from Consumer Social is Eating the World by Jay Drain Jr
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- The last feature—mutual matching—is marketed as a safety feature, helping decrease the chance of unsolicited harassment. But, as a friend has said, “the problem is that the apps assume textual harassment is a worse problem for women than failure to actually meet anyone interesting.” Rather than introduce new technical patterns, the apps maintain th... See more
from Dangerous Dating Protocols Web by Shreeda Segan
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- To exist on a dating app is to be constantly inundated by the pressure to meet up, regardless of your readiness. And for women, that pressure is reinforced by existing in a world that hates them for being single.
from How Celibate Women Became a Threat
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- When it comes to the business of dating apps, the most relevant principle isn’t necessarily patriarchal, but inherently capitalist: celibate, app-less women are not lucrative, an issue that the entire industry is grappling with.
from How Celibate Women Became a Threat
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- While some would say we have too many dating apps, I think we’ve only scratched the surface on what’s possible in the space.
from Opportunities in Consumer Social by Erik Torenberg
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- If you match and then change your mind, you can just un match without explanation.
But that’s not how healthy human relationships work, and so it’s not surprising that going back to app-less dating isn’t as easy a switch as it sounds. We’re now more scared of rejection, more avoidant of the uncomfortable conversations that are all but inevitable, a... See morefrom The human cost of an Apple update
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