Things I learned after my first foray into dating apps over the past week:
1. Many people post pictures with their kids' faces in full view. I probably don't have to tell this community how dangerous that is.
2. I don't understand the use of heavy AI filtering on selfies. Many look like aliens with 10 inch high foreheads. Don't you plan to meet people in person? Will they recognize you?
3. There seems to be a high prevalence of septum piercings for women in their late 20s to early 30s.
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4. Many people seem to forget that the photos they are posting are public. I've seen plenty of things that don't violate the app's ToS but would sure get a closer inspection from an HR department.
5. You can't do much of anything with the free versions of these apps. By design.
6. Spammers and bots seem to like me so far. Real people? That remains to be seen.
@voltronic OkCupid was legit back when it came out - IDK about now.
POF was alright if you can deal with the shit interface.
Alas, most of the apps are designed to make money off you and you specifically being a male.
@MrGoat
I'm not going to say which apps I have tried, but I did consider the two you mentioned. There's a couple friends of friends who met their current spouses on PoF. The recent user reviews for both of those services are quite poor.
And yes, I can see exactly how these apps bait you. But unless we bring back speed dating, it seems like this is what society has decided we do now.
@voltronic A method you can try is to use the same message and mass message all the interests you have and go from responses etc and narrow down to a meet.
@MrGoat
If I ever get any responses I'll see how that works.