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> a large number of techies using Android This doesn’t match my experience. Almost everyone I work with has an iPhone. Anyway, having a good income isn’t the
by School-Cotton 4y ago
> a large number of techies using Android
This doesn’t match my experience. Almost everyone I work with has an iPhone.
Anyway, having a good income isn’t the whole story. It’s probably also about willingness to conform to subtle, arbitrary social norms. Plenty of women are more attracted to a guy who dresses well, despite the fact that plenty of techies wear free hoodies. I think that’s a better analogy.
- tfehring 4y agoI think using Android can be either a low income signal or a Grey Tribe [0] cultural signal, and people on dating sites might want to screen out either (or both). Like you said, it’s about arbitrary norms, but we make assumptions about others all the time based on which norms we follow. An analogy from a different angle is that texting your Tinder match from an Android phone is a bit like applying for a tech job with a @hotmail.com email address. [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
- jcelerier 4y ago.. people use SMS on tinder ? I had overall a couple hundred matches and going through classic text has been exceedingly rare, 80% of the time conversations move on to instagram, and otherwise to fb messenger or whatsapp
- mrep 4y agoGuessing you are not in the US? I am and all matches I have had on hinge have moved onto text and I have had a girl comment on the green bubbles. I don't even have fb messenger or whatsapp installed.
- jcelerier 4y agoYes, France (and Canada where I moved recently looks like the same so far)
- xenospn 4y agoUS is all texting. Only foreigners use WhatsApp.
- ericd 4y agoMany of the best technical people I know use Android. Of course, they’re also not generally using SMS, they tend to use eg Signal.