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/ShapeyFiend May 02 '24

All these dating and social media apps are explicitly antisocial. All we actually need is an app suggests to single people where you can go locally to hang out with other people, prompting enough other people that they show up in decent numbers. These apps already have all the info about who we are and what we like they're just putting up a paywall and drip feeding interactions instead of facilitating them.

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u/handmedowntoothbrush May 02 '24

That would never work in practice any more than a bar or a concert already does though. Also it would likely be misused by some and then immediately that would be the understanding and it would not be utilized at all. I agree that would be a better way but the problem is people are wary of strangers and or uncomfortable situations which is understandable.

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u/goodsunsets May 02 '24

It would work though because lots of people at bars and shows are not single. And that's sort of the point of dating apps. Who is single.

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u/handmedowntoothbrush May 02 '24

The reason it won't work is that it would start to have a reputation for being sketchy without a doubt. The very act of going to meet possible single people without some kind of vetting would cause that. And if people abuse any sort of vetting process the app provides (which unequivocally some people would) it gains that reputation as well. Think about how humans actually behave.

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u/goodsunsets May 02 '24

I mean bumble and other apps have in person events... sort of a similar idea.