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Appearance (obesity) as a factor is addressed in the article. Quote from a researcher*: "[Online life] ends up putting a lot of importance on physical app
by caminante 10y ago
Appearance (obesity) as a factor is addressed in the article. Quote from a researcher*:
"[Online life] ends up putting a lot of importance on physical
appearance, and that, I think, is leaving out a large section
of the population."
- superuser2 10y agoYes, but putting more importance on appearance, and appearance actually changing, are interestingly different. You could also say that non-Tinder online dating i.e. OKCupid is actually putting less importance on appearance by matching people on preferences instead of "prettiest girl at the bar."
- Grishnakh 10y agoI disagree for two reasons: 1) Tinder (along with similar apps) has completely overtaken "traditional" online dating sites like OKCupid in popularity. 2) Even on OKCupid or other such sites, people have photos. I'm pretty sure I remember OKC's data guys even writing an article about attractive people getting far more messages on there than unattractive ones according to some research they did. Having all that extra personal data on OKC might be useful in some edge cases in swaying someone to correspond with someone they might have skipped over, but it's only going to go so far. Maybe you'll go out on a date with a girl who's a "6" because she loves Firefly and AD&D, when normally you only date "7s", but some girl who's into a bunch of geeky things you like but is only a "2" is not going to be of interest to you, except maybe in the "friendzone".