Quote: (07-24-2016 03:20 PM)Apollo21 Wrote:
Wow...Tinder is more interested in making money than making matches
No fooling?
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...so basically that means
if you rely on Tinder...your dating life is being being controlled by a computer algorithm.
Online dating is a new variant for the digital age, but at its core it's the same old hustle from time immemorial that has been keeping bars, nightclubs, and any other venue that single women voluntarily show up at to be around single men:
Women are the bait, and men are plunking coins into the slot machine. Women enjoy sex, sure, but in a sense that's all secondary gain - most attractive women don't need bars or clubs to get laid by attractive men. Their primary enjoyment comes from the experience of attention and being desired.
Online dating is the same way: women are getting enjoyment out of the whole "experience", while for men it's mainly a grind. Sex is a "value added" feature for them.
The goal is to get men to pay up for the opportunity to be in contact with young women, whether online or off, and it always has been. The point of all that statistical "deep data" analysis and algorithmic manipulation that online dating sites do is not to learn how to create sustainable romantic matches between compatible partners, but to analyze how to make them more appealing slot machines that produce better value for shareholders.
The way you do this is make the sites appealing to women, and use trickery to make men believe that the slot machine is going to pay out more than it actually is. If the "slow decline" matching system as described by the OP's friend is legitimate, it would certainly make some sense. The initial rush of "matches" are the blinking machine lights that draw your attention.
The reason that the sites have so many habitual serial daters is because they're specifically crafted to appeal to that type of woman. The lures are self-sustaining.
I don't think any man's dating life in a Western society is completely free of control, unless you're solely relying on day game or something for every bit of it. Social circle, nightlife, online, or whatever...someone somewhere is framing the interactions and who you're eventually going to meet, whether it's an algorithm developed in an office in Silicon Valley, a nightclub owner, a church minister, or your mom and dad. It is in women's interests for it to be so.