
The Cult of Dating Apps
Sounds Like A Cult
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Dating Aps Are Not Incentivising You to Find a Match
Claire: I don't use dating aps that much, but my friends always tell me, like, you need to swipe on them more so that the algorithm gets to know you. And here's the fucked up thing though, i have read that, much like what you were saying, claire, it is not in the aps favor. They are not incentive es to actually want to feed you your fect match. So they'll collect all those data points and then they will still serve you someone who's just off. It's a for profit endeavor that relies on sort of exasperating people's insecurities and desires for connection. But if tiktok can recommend
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