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Can dating apps actually work for men?
10 min readSep 10, 2022
TL DR: Yes! They can!
I’ll show you how. The easiest thing that came to mind is refuting the reasons why people say they can’t work. Think of it as me dispelling myths! But first, I want to give you the raw hard truth about online dating. If you don’t like it. Run away!
Suppose you can handle the bad and feel like you’re one of the brave souls who can make it work. Let’s GO!
I’ll start with the basic and, at this point, cliched facts you most likely know by now.
- There is dating inequality.
- Studies show dating apps are now the number one way couples meet
- The top 10% of men get 58% of the likes. Meanwhile, for the bottom 50% of men, they get just 4.3%.
- Such a large amount of “normies” are left on the online dating shelf.
- 100 matches doesn’t always translate to 100 good connections or even dates.
- An Italian study actually assessed people on dating apps and found that they were more likely to respond to each other’s messages if they were equal in attractiveness
- People prefer dates who were more attractive than them.
- An experiment was set up to Tinder profiles of a man and a woman with equal attractiveness, both with identical…