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MariaTaylor posted...

Hannyabal posted...

Interesting. I would expect at that age that women (and men, even) might be using tinder differently than people around my age (22-25ish) and that might account for some of the differences. Societal expectations about marriage, etc. are definitely different and more women might exclusively be looking for something that could potentially be long term. Whereas theres not a whole lot of women at 22-25 only looking for that.

could be. I have my age range set pretty wide (18-36). but I know a lot of people are going to use 30 as the cutoff point so I'm not even showing up in their potential matches.

Hannyabal posted...

Whenever I delete my account and start completely fresh, I usually end up with around 25ish matches per day for the first couple weeks (as people out there who have essentially already swiped on everyone in the area are shown my profile within a few days) and then maybe 5ish a day after that.

oh yeah, wow. if that amount of matches is normal then I'm probably wasting my time.

I'm not sure 25 matches a day is normal. I would class myself as at least slightly above average in attractiveness and I also have the quirk of being English whilst living in America. I never got anywhere near that number of matches granted I was older than the person you quoted. Maybe it's also because it has been a long time since I used Tinder too. In the first week or so of using the app I'd get maybe 5-10 matches a day starting the second day. There was a noticeable drop off after the first week and it would be an odd match here and there.

I had a theory that during your first week on the app they boosted your profile presence and after that it went to normal. Deleting your account and then restarting definitely increased number of matches. It may not be the same now but you could also tell who had swiped yes to you before swiping them with pretty decent accuracy. It seemed to queue up people who had swiped right on you at the start of your list so it was highly likely that swiping right in the your first few matches of the day, would get a mutual match. You could also force close the app and reopen it a few times and if it showed you the same girl more than once, she probably swiped yes on you. I can't remember the exact specifics, you may have had to swipe once and then close and then swipe once again and if it was the same second girl it was a mutual.

I think that was also why it became harder for men to match than women. Since womens initial loadup of profiles was a massive list of all the dudes who swiped right a lot. Whereas there was not as many women doing that.

My girlfriend cringes every time I mention it since she had a terrible time on Tinder before me whereas I found her relatively easily and didn't have any bad experiences (she was actually the only one I agreed to meet and we talked for quite some time first). But I wouldn't give up on it, just don't pin high hopes on it. I'd recommend starting a fresh account and seeing if that increases matches (usually from Day 2 onwards)