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Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures
HughPickens.com (3830033) writes "Tricia Romano reports at the Seattle Times that Susie Lee and Katrina Hess have developed Siren, a new online dating app designed to protect against men inundating women with messages that are by turns gross, hilarious, objectifying and just plain sad. A 2012 experiment by Jon Millward, a data journalist, found that women were messaged 17 times more than men; the best-looking woman received 536 messages in four months, while the best-looking guy received only 38. Lee hopes to change the nature of the messages and put women in the driver's seat. As online dating options have grown, Lee noticed that her friends' frustration did, too: With every good introduction often came a slew of lewd ones. "I just started looking (at online dating options) and very quickly realized how many things are out there and how immediately my 'creepy meter' went up," Lee says. The free iPhone app, currently launched to a select market in Seattle in August, allows women to peruse men's pictures and their answers to the "Question of the Day" ("You found a magic lamp and get three wishes. What are they?") and view their Video Challenges ("Show us a hidden gem in Seattle"). If a woman is suitably impressed by a man's answers, she can make herself visible to him. Only then can he see what she looks like. "It's a far more thoughtful — and cautious — approach than the one taken by the dating app of the moment, Tinder, which is effectively a "hot or not" game, with little information beyond a few photos, age and volunteered biographical tidbits," writes Romano. "And the implicit notion that it's a "hookup" app can be uncomfortable for some women."
OK Cupid's stats as illustrated by co-founder Christian Rudder give another example of how steep the curve is, when it comes to physical attractiveness vs. messages received on online dating sites.
My recommendation is take the rejection at face value and in private, instead of meeting up for a date and have the guy run screaming because you're a 450 pound overweight lard-ass
OH MY GOD quit oppressing women you sexist patriarch!
MISOGYNIST!
Otherwise: you get treated like shit, whichever side your on.
What's an on? I didn't even realize I had one.
Video Challenge: Upload a video of your paycheck.
4. Don't mention that you like dogs and/or horses sauteed with garlic.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
I met my wife the old fashioned way - mutual desperation and booze.
Bars never worked for me. I don't drink, and I am not interested in desparate drunks. Match.com was great. I met many women, and had a date (or two) almost every weekend for six months. I already knew that my future wife's goal was marriage and kids before I even clicked on her link. We exchanged a few emails, chatted on the phone, and then met two days later. Everything clicked. The only real question was whether we had compatible indentation styles. On the second date, she had her laptop with her, so I asked to see a code sample and take a look at her ~/.indent.pro. Her code was perfect BSD style, like a snippet from from the FreeBSD kernel. We were married eight months later.
They claim that the best looking man only received 38 messages in four months. That's totally untrue. I received 43 messages.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
"We were married eight months later."
What took that long? Getting emacs vs. vi settled?
I can report that my findings indicate that the worst-looking guy receives 0 messages in four months.
Your font looks so good. How about we get together and kern that shit?
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
"We were married eight months later."
What took that long? Getting emacs vs. vi settled?
No. I use emacs. She uses vi. Who cares? If you share code, and use the same git repository, then a common indentation style is important. Using the same editor is not. The only thing we argue about is which editor the kids will learn.
No. I use emacs. She uses vi. Who cares?
Mixed marriages never work.
And you should teach the kids vim. She shouldn't be using vi, but vim.
The only thing we argue about is which editor the kids will learn.
you should teach the kids vim. She shouldn't be using vi, but vim. What is she, a time traveller from the days of Souza on gramophones? Or maybe teach nano, maybe leafpad.
All joking aside, glad you found the geekwoman of your dreams.