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Without further evidence, this article seems patently false. It essentially claims that over 1 in 10 American college students are looking for sugars daddies on

Without further evidence, this article seems patently false. It essentially claims that over 1 in 10 American college students are looking for sugars daddies on a single website. What seems far more likely is that, like every "matchmaking" website, there is a majority of accounts that are made up. They are obviously motivated to tout the number of young college kids in their marketing to attract the money, ie sugar daddies, to their website.

anovikov 7y ago
Is that really the case that majority of accounts on matchmaking websites are made up? Why? Here in Europe, definitely not the case. Sometimes there are blatant, obviously spam accounts that send links to porn and scam sites, i don't mean these. But other than that, i have yet to see an obviously fake profile being in Czech Republic or Belarus (here in Cyprus they are sort of a thing, but in a different way - people who don't really live here but looking for a man to pull them out of the sh*thole countries they live in, like Ukraine or Moldova, but they are still real people - i know coz i dated many of them). Why would that be any different in the U.S.? Are women for some reasons reluctant to join?
- dkersten 7y ago
  > I s that really the case that majority of accounts on matchmaking websites are made up? Why? There are plenty of stories like this one: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/match-group-dating-scam.html https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/match-group... > Are women for some reasons reluctant to join? Anecdotally, I would say yes because most women have a lot more prospects than most men do and are already receiving way more attention from men than they want, so they simply have little need for it in comparison to men. Or at least, when they do go in matchmaking sites they receive many many requests so are “taken” very quickly while most men do not get any, so women cycle through the service much faster than men do.
  - anovikov 7y ago
    Makes me feel so happy about living in Europe. Here's where old 'In Soviet Russia' joke works, for real. But why does it work that way? Men are more interested in relationship than women? Isn't it supposed to naturally be other way around?
    - dkersten 7y ago
      Women have more prospects than men. The average woman has a lot more men going after them than the men do, so they can be picky. Just go to a pub or nightclub and you will see that most women get hit on by many men. I didn’t check these particularly hard for quality, but quick google search: from https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-experiment/1310866 https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-expe... > After one day, Brian accrued 269 matches and had a mere 28 messages in his inbox; whereas, Briana had 701 matches and 378 messages waiting for her reply. Also: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-dating-websites-picky-australia-study-a8418886.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-... https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_think_there_are_more_men_than_women_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_... For what it’s worth, I live in Western Europe and my experience is similar to that of America.

anovikov 7y ago

Is that really the case that majority of accounts on matchmaking websites are made up? Why? Here in Europe, definitely not the case. Sometimes there are blatant, obviously spam accounts that send links to porn and scam sites, i don't mean these. But other than that, i have yet to see an obviously fake profile being in Czech Republic or Belarus (here in Cyprus they are sort of a thing, but in a different way - people who don't really live here but looking for a man to pull them out of the sh*thole countries they live in, like Ukraine or Moldova, but they are still real people - i know coz i dated many of them). Why would that be any different in the U.S.? Are women for some reasons reluctant to join?

dkersten 7y ago
> I s that really the case that majority of accounts on matchmaking websites are made up? Why? There are plenty of stories like this one: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/match-group-dating-scam.html https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/match-group... > Are women for some reasons reluctant to join? Anecdotally, I would say yes because most women have a lot more prospects than most men do and are already receiving way more attention from men than they want, so they simply have little need for it in comparison to men. Or at least, when they do go in matchmaking sites they receive many many requests so are “taken” very quickly while most men do not get any, so women cycle through the service much faster than men do.
- anovikov 7y ago
  Makes me feel so happy about living in Europe. Here's where old 'In Soviet Russia' joke works, for real. But why does it work that way? Men are more interested in relationship than women? Isn't it supposed to naturally be other way around?
  - dkersten 7y ago
    Women have more prospects than men. The average woman has a lot more men going after them than the men do, so they can be picky. Just go to a pub or nightclub and you will see that most women get hit on by many men. I didn’t check these particularly hard for quality, but quick google search: from https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-experiment/1310866 https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-expe... > After one day, Brian accrued 269 matches and had a mere 28 messages in his inbox; whereas, Briana had 701 matches and 378 messages waiting for her reply. Also: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-dating-websites-picky-australia-study-a8418886.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-... https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_think_there_are_more_men_than_women_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_... For what it’s worth, I live in Western Europe and my experience is similar to that of America.