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The ‘Dating Market’ Is Getting Worse
- downerending 7y agoContains interesting links, but the article itself is rather poorly reasoned. For example, an individual may not really know exactly what sort of car they want, but contra the authors, that doesn't mean there's not a market in cars. Mating is very much a market, since pretty much the start of sexual reproduction millions of years ago.
- xkcd-sucks 7y agoYes, if "market" is a fundamental axiom of one's worldview -- But since that sexual reproduction is older and more widespread than trade, one could also say that markets are a form of courtship
- downerending 7y agoTrue enough. I found my wife via OKC, and I think I could have skipped a lot of misery if I had had this insight a lot sooner.
- exabrial 7y agoSo really, according to the author, something like Coffee Meets Bagel is probably the only correct approach, but gets drowned out because of the lack of instant gratification.
- Apocryphon 7y agoHow about Hinge? Last I saw years ago, they had redesigned the app and positioned themselves as the anti-dating app.
- Ancalagon 7y ago> “It’s like, ‘If this doesn’t go well, there are 20 other guys who look like you in my inbox.’ And I’m sure they feel the same way—that there are 20 other girls who are willing to hang out, or whatever.” Funny how inverted the expectations and realities of dating via apps are (disclaimer: for most people).
- Scoundreller 7y ago> ” “Those are things like ‘I want a redhead who’s over 5’7”,’ or ‘I want a Jewish man who at least has a graduate degree.’” So they log in to a digital marketplace and start narrowing down their options. “They shop for a partner the way that they would shop for a camera or Bluetooth headphones, Man, I wish parametric searching for Bluetooth headphones worked that well!