how dating apps keep you single

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I always feel weird saying I met my girlfriend online, because people tend to assume 'dating app' when the reality is 'Transformers fanfiction'.

Dating apps are not keeping me single. I'm doing a terrific job at that myself.

Is there ANYTHING this girl doesn't do??? She's an artist, a game designer, a math major, a researcher...I'm impressed.

"People get overwhelmed with too many choices, burn out, and give up." Lol, that requires me to get a match in the first place.

Boyfri(end) Girlfri(end) Soup Only soup has no end

Feeling lucky that I met my husband on an app and he ISN'T a can of soup (as far as I can tell)

Girls: Choice overload is a real problem. Guys: Tumbleweed and cricket sounds

"I can't find a date, there's only soup." "Well then get off the soup profile!" "There's just more soup." "Go to the next profile!" "It's still soup." "What app are you on?" "I'm on soup!" "Why are you trying to date on a soup app!?!"

"I'm at Soup" "WHY ARE YOU FINDING LOVE IN THE SOUP STORE?!"

One of the most cliché pickup lines in Hebrew is "Is your dad a gardener? No? Then how come you're such a flower?" The thing is, my dad IS a gardener, so people who try to use that line on me often get surprised and forget what they were going for.

The business goal of a dating app is... to keep you using the dating app!

Last time I used a dating app, men kept asking me if I really had to use my wheelchair and cane because "that's not really attractive". It's very different when you're disabled and wondering if the person behind the screen is going to message you with "why weren't you aborted" or get incredibly creepy with a fetish and the things they wanted to do to me.

I know this wasn’t the point, but I really want a dating app for the undead now.

Interestingly enough, "I got chicken even though I answered 'no' to 'do I like meat in my soup,'" pretty well sums up my frustration with dating apps.

"If you match with someone who is highly desirable your own rating goes up." That explains why my rating is so low.

As a huge introvert that never goes out, dating apps are a blessing to me. All my relationships that came from dating apps were smoother and easier, without dating apps I'd definitely be single. I think people use dating apps the wrong way, Its not about reeling in as much as you can then choosing its about reeling in one at a time i.e. matching, then have a short conversation if it doesn't lead anywhere release until you find one that sparks and you focus on that one match. Remember this ain't Mambo no.5

"dating apps are bad because they give you too many options and paralyze you" looks at my 3 matches in 3 months ... wut?

Each gender complains that dating apps suck for different reasons. Dating apps suck for heterosexual women because of choice overload like Sabrina says. They’re presented with a lot of potential options and a lot of matches but have trouble finding the “right” guy from among their matches. For women the “work” of dating begins after the match when they have filter out from a large number of matches if a guy is “worth” a date and then if he is worth a relationship. This is the process women complain about and find exhausting, spending hours in bland conversations and filtering through 🍆 pics. Most men have trouble just getting a match in the first place, so when they do match they don’t suffer from choice overload as much. But even after matching, because the woman they match with has so many matches to choose from they struggle to stand out and be chosen for a date. Even once they get a date there is a high likelihood of things not working out and the woman choosing another guy fir a relationship. This is what men complain about. Ironically this leads to a game theory problem where both sides pursue strategies that aim to benefit themselves, but end up making both sides worse off. Men must try to swipe/match with as many women as possible since they are less likely to match and to get a date after matching. Which means that women are more likely to match with men who are not that interested in them and makes it harder for them to find ones they are compatible with. It also means that the men she matches with cannot invest much time/emotionally in her since they need to maximize the number of women they are talking to at any given time since the likelihood of getting a date with any one of them is low. Any time invested in a match that doesn’t work out is high cost for the man. On the opposite side, women have so many matches that they cannot invest time into all of them and have to hope the man will work to earn her attention and form an emotional connection with her. Even once you get to the date you end up with an end state where the woman has a constant supply of men banging down her door trying to get her attention most of whom don’t want to invest in her and the man is forced to constantly pursue multiple women none of whom he can really invest in (because if that date doesn’t work out it’ll take him 3 months to get another match), which makes it hard for either of them make the connection needed to form a relationship.

I’m not saying race bias is amplified BUT the week I moved to a non white country I got 8x the number of matches, with the same pics and bio. (There’s clearly a race preference which is perfectly ok but tinder is most likely amplifying that greatly)