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>If anything, the existance of this site tells a lot about Mac users. Dating sites are notorious for fragmenting the daylights out of the total dating pool. T

by MrFoof 16y ago

>If anything, the existance of this site tells a lot about Mac users. Dating sites are notorious for fragmenting the daylights out of the total dating pool. There's dating sites for "geeks", for "gamers", for "sugar daddies", for "golddiggers", for "just messing around", for "goths", for "insert word here" etc. A fair number of companies actually take a basic site engine, re-skin it so it doesn't look anything like sister sites, re-brand it towards their target audience, buy the appropriate domain and search keywords and launch a new site. Honestly it's not much of a different model for porn sites that aren't simply licensing their media assets to thousands of sites. Same girl, similar media assets, 8 different sites. Dating sites aren't that far removed from porn sites. Many dating sites have poor or only rudimentary search functionality, so you end up with a similar experience to a porn site -- browsing a bunch of media and clicking on what you fancy for a better look.

endtime 16y ago
>There's dating sites for "geeks", for "gamers", for "sugar daddies", for "golddiggers", for "just messing around", for "goths", I love that you see being a Mac user as on the same level as those other, ahem, subcultures.
- MrFoof 16y ago
  >I love that you see being a Mac user as on the same level as those other, ahem, subcultures. I don't. I've been using OS X as my primary OS since 2005. The point is, there's a "dating site" for everything as evidenced at the ads I saw the last time I poked at one. Christians. Cheating moms. Busty Russians. I wouldn't be surprised if some sites simply register all sorts of keyword combinations.
stcredzero 16y ago
Dating sites aren't that far removed from porn sites. Porn movies, musicals, and martial arts films have structural similarities as well. People have published academic papers on this. Modern effects-driven action movies should be in that list too. I suspect most dating sites are really just a kind of targeted link-bait. Those that have real utility will be more like Facebook. (okcupid seems to be one of these)

by MrFoof 16y ago

endtime 16y ago

>There's dating sites for "geeks", for "gamers", for "sugar daddies", for "golddiggers", for "just messing around", for "goths", I love that you see being a Mac user as on the same level as those other, ahem, subcultures.

MrFoof 16y ago
>I love that you see being a Mac user as on the same level as those other, ahem, subcultures. I don't. I've been using OS X as my primary OS since 2005. The point is, there's a "dating site" for everything as evidenced at the ads I saw the last time I poked at one. Christians. Cheating moms. Busty Russians. I wouldn't be surprised if some sites simply register all sorts of keyword combinations.

stcredzero 16y ago

Dating sites aren't that far removed from porn sites. Porn movies, musicals, and martial arts films have structural similarities as well. People have published academic papers on this. Modern effects-driven action movies should be in that list too. I suspect most dating sites are really just a kind of targeted link-bait. Those that have real utility will be more like Facebook. (okcupid seems to be one of these)