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Business model is not letting you find your person, because if you do they lose a paying customer. Thats my thinking and why I’m not using dating websites.
by nuker 5y ago
Business model is not letting you find your person, because if you do they lose a paying customer. Thats my thinking and why I’m not using dating websites.
- polishdude20 5y agoI was talking about this exact thing with my girlfriend the other day. Tinder and other dating sites want you to stay as long as possible and spend as much money as possible with them. How do you do that? Number one: You give them hope. Give people hope that they will find the person they are looking for if they stay on longer. Give people hope by helping facilitate a match just as they start to lose interest in the website. Make them think they will find someone. Number two: Cultivate a culture of attractive people. Keep the attractive people staying. This gives hope for the unattractive people as they sometimes match with them. Keep the attractive people happy and help facilitate lots of meetings or them. Number three: Provide an easy way to skip the whole attractive/unattractive hierarchy by letting people spend money. Now you too can get in on the action (but not for too long) if you have the money. I realize this is a pessimistic view of dating sites. Heck, I met my current girlfriend of three years on OkCupid luckily. It's not all doom and gloom.
- nuker 5y ago> It's not all doom and gloom. Yep. They need it to work sometimes to stay competitive vs other websites. I guess it works as lottery draw, give only these 100 a proper match today