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"which doesn't say anything about interest in long term relationships." We're talking about Tinder. While longterm relationships do come out of that platform,
by giantg2 3y ago
"which doesn't say anything about interest in long term relationships."
We're talking about Tinder. While longterm relationships do come out of that platform, it was intended and still used primarily as a hookup site. I'm not sure how the authors think Tinder is a good platform for longterm relationships.
I would guess if you looked at the highly desirable men, the numbers would show they are also more selective. If you can be successful with the population of more desirable mates, why not be lazy and ignore the mid/lower tiers of mates? That's essentially what we see with most women.
- mettamage 3y agoIt actually depends on the country. The Amsterdam is more relationship oriented, Berlin is in-between, Valencia is hook ups, Koh Phangan is for hook ups (tourists, I didn’t swipe Thai women). The US was awful. NYC perhaps wasn’t awful. I didn’t swipe enough there. This is just my experience.
- anamexis 3y agoThe last time I used Tinder (in San Francisco), I would guess it was about 90% people looking for long term relationships.
- ZoomerCretin 3y agoThat's likely a function of the area skewing so heavily towards a surplus of men. It's hard to play the field when the single man:single woman ratio is 3:1.
- giantg2 3y agoHow can it be 3:1? Seems the male/female breakdown for SF is about 1.1:1. There are some other factors, but I still don't see how it can be anywhere close to 3:1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#/media/File%3ASan_Francisco_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisc...
- reducesuffering 3y agoLook at the male surplus until 60. Then remember that 80% of those are taken. And that the 1.1 : 1 ratio includes the huge 70+ women surplus. I could believe a 2:1 single ratio for ages 20 - 60
- anamexis 3y agoWouldn't 80% of males also be taken?
- reducesuffering 3y agoNo, the surplus skews it. If there's 120 males and 100 females for an age bracket like 30 - 40, and 80 of them are couples (assuming hetero), that leaves 40 males for 20 females as the rest, 2:1 single ratio. Men are born like 1.05 : 1 so early years are male-surplus and elderly are female-surplus because men die quicker. Then you also have the conundrum where males 20 - 50 are competing for women 20 - 35, so market dynamics aren't always 1 to 1 age-wise.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoDo the platforms really control what the audience uses it for? I get the impression they tend to lose control as things scale up.