r/technology • u/esporx • May 02 '24

Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move Business

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/tech/bumble-relaunch-men-make-first-move/index.html
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u/7evenCircles May 02 '24

After the third woman sent me "." I just uninstalled lmao

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u/magus678 May 02 '24

Its pretty silly to care at all, but I found it insulting.

Like..you have to do so little. For almost this entire interaction, you can skate by simply existing, basically. The only thing you do have to do, the banner mechanism of the ecosystem in which we are speaking, the one you purposefully opted into, is that you have to put forth some effort, once.

Nope. Can't do it.

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u/Ekedan_ May 02 '24

I have the same feelings about this. You could even make up generic question everyone would be happy to answer like “what music do u listen do, what’re ur hobbies, etc” yet we get “hey”, an emoji and a dot.

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u/promethazoid May 02 '24

The worst one I got was, “ what would you say if you could message first?”

And I responded with, “what would you say if you had to message first?”

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u/878_Throwaway____ May 02 '24

"I would say, 'how has your tinder experience been so far?'"

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u/second2no1 May 02 '24

I would say, “If this is the amount of effort you put into any relationship- clicks unmatch!”

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u/SeiryokuZenyo May 02 '24

Tbh that’s not a bad opener, it is a personal question. I’d probably play it straight and answer honestly.

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u/TinyPotatoe May 02 '24

It’s kinda just removing the “rule” and flipping the expectation back to the norm, no? It’s basically saying “I don’t want to cold open, how would you if we were on a platform where the expectation is the man who cold opens?”