Cool_Name@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoBumble's new CEO is already leaving the company months after killing its signature featurefortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoThere’s a big problem with the “women message first” gimmick, and it’s that they just don’t. If they don’t simply let the match expire, you either get a shitty Gif, or something along the lines of “hey.” Maybe one in ten will actually send a message that genuinely starts a conversation.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoI literally saw so many profiles being like “I don’t message first”, like do you even understand what the app you’ve signed up for is?
minus-squarekitnaht@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoWell, men CAN message first, as of like 8 months ago.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoI always wondered if they realised we actually can’t send the first message.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoit would work better if it was "women swipe first’. men can look at and swipe the women who swiped them already. this solves two problems: women are not seen by anyone they don’t want to be men don’t need to spend hours swiping hundreds of women please give me 1 million dollars
minus-squareMothmanDelorian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoThis means men will see many fewer women on the platform in many cases.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-213 days agoit means men would not spend hours on the app, which means nobody would ever do this
There’s a big problem with the “women message first” gimmick, and it’s that they just don’t.
If they don’t simply let the match expire, you either get a shitty Gif, or something along the lines of “hey.”
Maybe one in ten will actually send a message that genuinely starts a conversation.
I literally saw so many profiles being like “I don’t message first”, like do you even understand what the app you’ve signed up for is?
Well, men CAN message first, as of like 8 months ago.
I always wondered if they realised we actually can’t send the first message.
it would work better if it was "women swipe first’. men can look at and swipe the women who swiped them already. this solves two problems:
please give me 1 million dollars
This means men will see many fewer women on the platform in many cases.
it means men would not spend hours on the app, which means nobody would ever do this