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[ShaunSA]

What's the average age here anyways? 70?

 

[SlinkyMike]

Yaaay can finally date flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers and my mom.

Yea, nine months from now we'll have the demon spawn of antivax couples. Great.

 

[Supervan II]

Yaaay can finally date flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers and my mom.

... and perhaps even Stiffler's mom!

 

[bwana]

Considering theyre in their 20s and 30`s. yeah.

Covering your bases? (It's the first one )

 

[w1z4rd]

Covering your bases? (It's the first one )

 

[Fulcrum29]

Damn MyBB really is full of old fuddy duddies

For many here, it is the only place with people.

 

[bwana]

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I was referring to your use of an apostrophe.

 

[w1z4rd]

I was referring to your use of an apostrophe.

Oh my bad. 50%. accuracy there. Now I know.

 

[Sepeng]

Don't folk stalk prospective dates on their FB profile in any event? This was inevitable I reckon, cuts out one or two steps in the dating process.

 

[Hamster]

Lol good luck. Unless you look like Zack Efron or some such it'll be just a waste of time. Online dating is useless.

That’s not the case. The one guy from OKCupid looked at years worth of data from their and other sites like match.com and wrote a book called Dataclysm. Amongst many of the things they found (you should look at their “no photo day” for example) that your looks vs. your chances is basically a bell curve slightly off center from average.

Basically, a 9 and 10 are too attractive and it works against them since people are “intimidated” or just don’t fancy their chances. At 1-3 you’re just plane ugly. So what it comes down to is for you to have the best chance you need to be a 7.

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offline-Selves/dp/0385347391

 

[backstreetboy]

That’s not the case. The one guy from OKCupid looked at years worth of data from their and other sites like match.com and wrote a book called Dataclysm. Amongst many of the things they found (you should look at their “no photo day” for example) that your looks vs. your chances is basically a bell curve slightly off center from average.

Basically, a 9 and 10 are too attractive and it works against them since people are “intimidated” or just don’t fancy their chances. At 1-3 you’re just plane ugly. So what it comes down to is for you to have the best chance you need to be a 7.

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offline-Selves/dp/0385347391

Might not be the case for OKCupid etc. but it's definitely true for Tinder, Bumble and the myriad of other dating apps. Last I used it there weren't many profiles in SA anyway.

At least among people who don’t use dating apps, the perception exists that they facilitate casual sex with unprecedented efficiency. In reality, unless you are exceptionally good-looking, the thing online dating may be best at is sucking up large amounts of time. As of 2014, when Tinder last released such data, the average user logged in 11 times a day. Men spent 7.2 minutes per session and women spent 8.5 minutes, for a total of about an hour and a half a day. Yet they didn’t get much in return. Today, the company says it logs 1.6 billion swipes a day, and just 26 million matches. And, if Simon’s experience is any indication, the overwhelming majority of matches don’t lead to so much as a two-way text exchange, much less a date, much less sex.

Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Moto Guzzi]

is the face in the book the correct place for this, are they only going to try to swop teeth-?

 

[Hamster]

Might not be the case for OKCupid etc. but it's definitely true for Tinder, Bumble and the myriad of other dating apps. Last I used it there weren't many profiles in SA anyway.

I doubt human behaviour is very different across platforms and I'll take the word of the mathematician with a decade+ of sample data over that of a journalist.

To each their own though

/brace for nuh-uh, screw facts fight

 

[konfab]

They already have this feature. All you do is look for woman selling wedding dresses in Facebook marketplace.

 

[Hamster]

The pros have arrived

 

[My_King]

That’s not the case. The one guy from OKCupid looked at years worth of data from their and other sites like match.com and wrote a book called Dataclysm. Amongst many of the things they found (you should look at their “no photo day” for example) that your looks vs. your chances is basically a bell curve slightly off center from average.

Basically, a 9 and 10 are too attractive and it works against them since people are “intimidated” or just don’t fancy their chances. At 1-3 you’re just plane ugly. So what it comes down to is for you to have the best chance you need to be a 7.

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offline-Selves/dp/0385347391

Makes sense.
So just to add - To have an even better chance dont include proud mommy/daddy in your BIO

 

[TelkomUseless]

That’s not the case. The one guy from OKCupid looked at years worth of data from their and other sites like match.com and wrote a book called Dataclysm. Amongst many of the things they found (you should look at their “no photo day” for example) that your looks vs. your chances is basically a bell curve slightly off center from average.

Basically, a 9 and 10 are too attractive and it works against them since people are “intimidated” or just don’t fancy their chances. At 1-3 you’re just plane ugly. So what it comes down to is for you to have the best chance you need to be a 7.

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offline-Selves/dp/0385347391

If you are a 9 or 10 and on dating app, you are doing life wrong...

 

[backstreetboy]

I doubt human behaviour is very different across platforms and I'll take the word of the mathematician with a decade+ of sample data over that of a journalist.

To each their own though

/brace for nuh-uh, screw facts fight

OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder stated in 2009 that the male OkCupid users who were rated most physically attractive by female OkCupid users received 11 times as many messages as the lowest-rated male users did, the medium-rated male users received about four times as many messages, and the one-third of female users who were rated most physically attractive by the male users received about two-thirds of all messages sent by male users.

OkCupid - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It's simple facts.

 

[backstreetboy]

If you are a 9 or 10 and on dating app, you are doing life wrong...

As the article states people use it as an ego booster.

 

[rambo919]

Basically, a 9 and 10 are too attractive and it works against them since people are “intimidated” or just don’t fancy their chances.

Intimidated no, aware that I am way to poor to actually attract one yes..... they also tend to be the type that expect to find rich men (they usually lie and say they want a man with "ambition") on free sites.... so not too bright to begin with.