{"id":75061,"date":"2022-07-19T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75061"},"modified":"2022-07-18T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:02:54","slug":"how-dating-apps-have-changed-the-dating-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/19\/how-dating-apps-have-changed-the-dating-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How dating apps have changed the dating world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robkhenderson.substack.com\/p\/first-base-is-hooking-up-second-base\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Henderson<\/a> on the changes dating sites have accelerated in the dating community:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tinder-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tinder-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-75062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tinder-logo.png 436w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tinder-logo-150x61.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>In the United States, 35 percent of Tinder users are college students ages 18 to 24 &#8230; &#8216;I&#8217;ve heard a joke on campus that goes something like this: &#8216;First base is hooking up, second base is talking, third base is going on a date and fourth base is dating&#8217;.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/settling-down-romance-in-the-era-of-gen-z\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am just old enough to remember what the dating scene was like before the rise of Tinder and other dating\/hook-up apps. It has changed a lot.<\/p>\n<p>2012 was another world in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has changed for everyone on the dating market. Even those who don&#8217;t use these apps. This is because even for the people who don&#8217;t use the apps, they still live in an environment where others use them. Over time, those who don&#8217;t use apps must adapt to the preferences and behavior of those who use them. Not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>One example of how the scene has changed. I have a friend from college. A good-looking guy. He showed me how many women he has matched with: More than 21,000. Twenty-one thousand. Tinder actually identified him as a valuable user early on, and gave him free perks and upgrades. They lifted his radius restrictions. This allowed him to match with even more women. I have another friend. Doesn&#8217;t have the best pictures on his profile. But not a bad looking guy. Over roughly the same period of time as my other friend, he has matched with seven women.<\/p>\n<p>Some findings on dating apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18 to 25 percent of Tinder users are in a committed relationship. <\/li>\n<li>Women aged 23 to 27 are twice as likely to swipe right (&#8220;liked&#8221;) on a man with a master&#8217;s degree compared with a bachelor&#8217;s degree. <\/li>\n<li>Men swipe right (&#8220;liked&#8221;) on 62 percent of the women&#8217;s profiles they see; women swipe right (&#8220;liked&#8221;) on only 4.5 percent of the men&#8217;s profiles they see. <\/li>\n<li>Half of men who use dating apps while in a committed relationship reported having sex with another person they met on a dating app. All women who used dating apps while in a committed relationship reported having sex with another person they met on a dating app. <\/li>\n<li>30 percent of men who use Tinder are married. <\/li>\n<li>In terms of attractiveness, the bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One way dating apps might be changing the dating scene. People used to have to go out to meet people. And it was costly to lose a relationship partner, in part because of the process involved in meeting someone new. Today, people know that a new partner is a few swipes away. Partners might be more replaceable. If things start deteriorating with their current partner, some can pull out a goldmine in their pocket.<\/p>\n<p>There may be some sexual stratification going on as well. My two friends are examples of the above finding that being slightly more attractive as a man leads to far more matches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Henderson on the changes dating sites have accelerated in the dating community: &#8220;In the United States, 35 percent of Tinder users are college students ages 18 to 24 &#8230; &#8216;I&#8217;ve heard a joke on campus that goes something like this: &#8216;First base is hooking up, second base is talking, third base is going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,15,13],"tags":[1106,956,139,255,547,504,764,43],"class_list":["post-75061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-technology","category-usa","tag-genz","tag-millennials","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-smartphones","tag-teenagers","tag-university","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jwF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75063,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75061\/revisions\/75063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}