Quote: (04-08-2014 08:48 PM)future Wrote:
Quote: (04-08-2014 08:10 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Quote: (04-08-2014 06:59 PM)Monty Brown Wrote:
Its also not good for black guys who want white girls.
Source: ex roommate and friends
Hell it's not even good for black guys that want black girls. I made a fake profile of a very good looking black guy and he only got two matches from black women. Both of which were way below him in looks. Online dating for black guys is such an extreme numbers game I wouldn't bother investing much time into it.
Also, Tinder has value in giving you an idea what countries your look will be most popular. Set up a fake Tinder and GPS spoofer and test it in different cities around the world. Results will vary greatly. Use Tinder as foreign woman recon tool. I should do a full post on this topic.
Interesting stuff!
It might really be a race thing then. I'm brown - that might explain my lack of popularity on Tinder.
Can I suggest a reason for this? (And let me know if I'm wrong.) From what I've long seen at work, school, and with friends, a lot of black men and women have stronger social networks in real life than whites and therefore less use for Tinder. In office situations, it's usually the blacks getting together at happy hour or putting together holiday parties. As such, it seems a lot easier to meet someone of the opposite sex this way -- i.e. when you're actually hanging out and having fun in mixed-sex crowds.
Whites, on the other hand, seem a colder, more alienated bunch who need machines today to connect. I feel as if a lot of white women, especially, deal with the real world as if they have their own private HR director in their heads. And IMO this has gotten worse since the 1990s (probably because white women have morphed from actual humans into corporate drones).
I used to joke about this with my best friend at work who was a black guy. He'd sometimes say he thought a white woman was racist for being cold to him and I'd tell him no, white women are like that to pretty much everyone (except the bosses, but I digress).
Being ethnic (Italian-American), I feel I fall in the middle of this and can see both sides. We have a good network, but we're not as tight as a lot of blacks, and we're white but not like white-whites.
I could be completely off-base about this. But my feeling is if blacks aren't on Tinder, they have no use for it.
(Addendum: interesting that the one segment of the white populace that does have strong networks, younger men, are regularly shamed as "bros" and "dudebros" as if having buddies and wanting to hang out is some sort of sin. Corporate America is the new religion of white women and if you're not working for it 24/7 you're a heathen.)