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Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com)
"The Tinder dating app will soon be asking men to submit photos in order to verify their height," writes long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike, sharing a post made Friday (March 29th) on the official Tinder blog.
Let's be real, when it comes to online dating -- honesty is the best policy. Yes, your height matters as long as every other shallow aspect of physical attraction does. Please try not to take it to heart...
Height-lying ends here. To require everyone under 6' to own up to their real height, we're bringing truthfulness back into the world of online dating. Introducing Tinder's Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes -- sometimes it matters. It's the tool we've had in our back-pockets for years, but we were hoping your honesty would allow us to keep it there... Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We'll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you'll receive your badge directly on your profile.
Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6' and beyond. So, we're expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet.
The post concludes that "Tinder's HVB is coming soon to a phone near you," and Tinder's official Twitter account described the feature as "the thing you never asked for, but definitely always wanted," with a short video showing their app displaying errors for incorrect heights. (The second error message reads "Seriously... Please enter your correct height.") The video has been viewed 2.78 million times. Its tagline? "Let's bring honesty back to dating."
"It's unknown at this point if this is a real feature that the company is adding to its dating app," reported one local news site, "or an early April Fool's joke."
Height-lying ends here. To require everyone under 6' to own up to their real height, we're bringing truthfulness back into the world of online dating. Introducing Tinder's Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes -- sometimes it matters. It's the tool we've had in our back-pockets for years, but we were hoping your honesty would allow us to keep it there... Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We'll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you'll receive your badge directly on your profile.
Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6' and beyond. So, we're expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet.
The post concludes that "Tinder's HVB is coming soon to a phone near you," and Tinder's official Twitter account described the feature as "the thing you never asked for, but definitely always wanted," with a short video showing their app displaying errors for incorrect heights. (The second error message reads "Seriously... Please enter your correct height.") The video has been viewed 2.78 million times. Its tagline? "Let's bring honesty back to dating."
"It's unknown at this point if this is a real feature that the company is adding to its dating app," reported one local news site, "or an early April Fool's joke."
Looks like the men have been violating the number one qualification for women on Tinder.
Honesty is the best policy? How about you clean up the ladies bios and pictures? Oh - the picture looks like you weigh 100 pounds less? Must be the camera angle.
You are presupposing that the women actually exist in the first place. During the data breach a few years ago Ashley Madison was exposed as having a ton of fake profiles (one site even suggested 90-95% of female profiles were fake) I presume that any site that requires men to pay real money to connect women most like has a huge number of fake profiles on their books.
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Not weird at all.
The Netherlands has the highest average height of any country in the world, and is much more genetically homogeneous (77% Dutch/Frisian) than the U.S. It also has had good nutrition with loads of dairy in the diet since the end of WWII. And those tall G.I.s were by and large young, Euro-American farm boys raised on diets of cheap beef, milk, and corn, basically the tallest subset of the American population, whereas the Netherlands went through 7 years of war and poverty, during which its typically shorter Jewish population was annihilated.
The U.S. now is much more genetically diverse with much larger populations form East Asia and Central America, where heights tend to be lower, and it has a much larger proportion of first generation immigrants who grew up in poverty than the Netherlands. The U.S. also consumes a lot less beef and dairy per capita than it did before the war.
Well, like you said fetishized by SOME men, but ugh...I think she looks like a freak with that thing, and I dare say most normal men don't like it ultra-wide.
But everyone has their preferences.
I think there is a problem with 'normalizing' being overweight for women and men. It is not healthy and we already have a problem with obesity.
If you are overweight, it should be pointed out, so that a person can get help and try to get to a more healthy weight.
We've got enough of a load on the healthcare system as it is, and obesity and the associated spread of type II diabetes is going to bankrupt us in the future if we don't try to stop the health problem.
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I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"...
(I'm from the Netherlands)
Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
You are quite off, I suspect you did a conversion error: 6'2" is 1.87 cm, when the average height of Dutch men in 1970 was about 1.76 (5'9" - 5'10"). The average height of the Dutch men has been increasing steadily and fast until around 2000, slower now but it is at its highest ever at 1.84m (just over 6ft). They started as the shortest men in the late 19th century (1.60 average), but I cannot find a 1940s figure to quote.
US men on the other hand seems to have pretty much plateaued in height around 1970 and they were considered among the tallest in the world the further back you go in time. In 1943 specifically the average height of US recruits was 174cm. As I can't tell how that graph goes from the late 19th century's 160cm to the 1970 176cm, I am not sure if the US soldiers would be noticeably taller during WW 2. But I suspect the difference might have been more "psychological" rather than physical.
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Well, I guess being in the shape of a large sphere does qualify in some way as having a curve somewhere.....maybe just one BIG continuous curve?
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