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Dating sites of all shades "sell" us a person at various levels of depth and according to our interests.
Our interests can be deep, or can be shallow.
Tinder is "selling" shallow+fun (Appearances, nearness, sexual adventure).
Shallow + fun sells. Look at a magazine.
Eigenfaces takes the idea a step forward. Automate shallow+fun+selection.
Remember the vaporized alcohol craze ?
Innuendo?
How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…
How a person chooses to represent themselves in pictures can tell you a lot about where they find themselves happy (traveling, inside, outdoors), when they think the look good/feel confident (in a gallery, out clubbing, on a farm, in a mirror), and what their hobbies/work consists of from just a few frames. I much prefer this to reading a massive block of text, then trying to regurgitate it in the form of a joke on a more traditional dating site.
My main gripe with Tinder is that sometimes people are more aware of this than others, so I may get a false-positive match that appears great. But they are really just curating a very specific slice of their life, instead of it being a more representative sampling across it. Although, even this becomes pretty easy to identify once you've become familiar with the common memes (e.g. picture petting a tiger)
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"improve your face". See South Korea plastic surgery stats: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-c...
See also, lawsuit over similar: http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Chinese-man-divorces-and-sues-wi...
How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…
I met my girlfriend on Tinder. We've been dating for 6 months now, and barring any future disaster in the next 5-10 years, will probably get married eventually. And I say this as someone who has dated many, many women, many of which were through Tinder. Just because someone is on Tinder doesn't automatically make them a "silicone beauty" with a vapid personality. People are people, and perhaps the problem is that you…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"improve your face". See South Korea plastic surgery stats: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-c...
See also, lawsuit over similar: http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Chinese-man-divorces-and-sues-wi...
How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…
I met my current girlfriend on Tinder. We've been together a year as of the end of this month. I had tried OkCupid as well and had no luck, though I'm not sure that was the fault of the site.
Let's see how eigenface figures that out.
Until then, swiping right for everyone may be a better strategy for straight guys.
Tinder should start using Eigenfaces to give people an estimate of the chance of finding a match when they sign up. You know, to manage expectations. "With your face and your standards you have a 1% chance to find a match. Please lower your standards or improve your face."
Or Tinder could automatically make everyone's face more attractive[1]. Or Tinder could charge to make your face automatically more attractive to people you are attracted to .... [1] http://leyvand.com/research/beautification/
I feel the human race has made a rather amusing step forward to rule-by-algorithm. 30 years ago this would be dystopian, today its a byproduct of a mish-mash of open source libraries.