because every dating app is 70% males, 25% trolls, 4% female chatbots, 0.5% female chatbots, 0.4% trans, 0.1% females. and every message to your match costs $10
Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps
Submitted 1 year ago by Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://time.com/6836033/gen-z-ditching-dating-apps/
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answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dis mf said females
bishbosh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It sucks because dating apps are a pretty trash experience all around, and definitely have some fundamental demographic issues, but god damn do the incels go wild whenever the conversation comes up.
TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At least he kept it consistent with males
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Possibly to differentiate from the trans women, who were mentioned immediately prior?
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That overwhelming male engagement is why Grindr has been so much fun on the whole.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 year ago
There’s a pun in there to be had…
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t say “dating apps” like there’s not a monopoly - this is all Match
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Dating is for people with a future. We have all realized in our subconscious that there is no future anymore. At least, not a good one.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s got nothing to with “generations”. Young people don’t need dating apps as much because their social lives are better. Wait until they’re 28 working at a shit job with minimal human interaction. They’ll be on those apps.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol . . . thanks TIME.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They figured out it’s all catfishing, bots, and now AI?
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
And loot boxes too.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surprise mechanics?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I ditched it just because fpr the few contacts I could establish all of them ghosted me after the first outreach.
Like okay, why even give mw a thumbs up if you don’t care anyway.
Thus I purged the app and live my life happier by just not giving a fuck about that.
If the situation offeres the opportunity I’ll take it. Else it’s whatever.Rumbelows@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So… it’s definitely their fault somehow and not…. I don’t know… enshitification?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t blame enshittification on this one. The dating app model doesn’t work, period. Even in the case of a completely free, non-profit app, you still have the problem that as people pair off they leave the dating pool.
The fundamental problem is that there’s a nonzero subpopulation of people who either have no interest in or are incapable of forming a stable long term relationship. As the dating pool filters over time, these folks get more and more concentrated in the population. This leads to the experience getting worse and worse for people who are interested and capable because they keep matching up with the wrong people.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
But how do you keep making the line go up, especially in a “market” with such a guaranteed drop-off point in user retention? You can do what these companies do and fill your apps with bots to keep engagement metrics up and users coming back as they fail to date your fake users. I’d call that enshittification, and it probably makes everything worse in this case.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Is Gen Z becoming the new Millennials?
“Gen Z is ruining the Dating App Market!”
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
TL;DRs:
many Gen-Z daters cite fear of rejection and being cringe amongst their top concerns.
Gen-Z daters may have a harder time putting themselves in the vulnerable position online of seeking partnership only to get passed over or ghosted.
dating a friend or someone from their community may actually reduce those feelings of stress and anxiety that Gen-Z face in the dating app environment.
Social media has become a place for meeting potential partners. Visually-driven apps like Instagram and TikTok allow users to get a sense of who people are (or who they want to be seen as)
Another interesting dating trend involves sharing detailed information about yourself and what you’re looking for in a personalized Google doc, linked in your social media bio.
Self-doxxing? Wtf?!
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Literal dating resumes.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Yeah, what happened to the good old:
a/s/l?barsoap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
18/f/cali
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Self-doxing is a major reason why I never tried dating sites/apps. You don’t have any chance there without a photo of yourself, and having my face posted online is a strict “no”. Especially since I don’t really look like an adult, which might attract some… unwanted kind of attention.
But mostly it’s the fact that pretty much all men want sex there.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 year ago
Latest Gen-Z trend is messaging your name, dob, and bank details to me.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Because they don’t work. I used them for nearly 20 years before giving up. I’m a solid 8/10, yet no one ever messaged me, and no one ever replied to my messages in all those years.
The only way to find love is by going out and meeting people. Met someone at work back in 2018 and now I’m happily married.