• 𝔗𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔞@jlai.lu
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    1 month ago

    This is how you find out your profile’s bad.

    I don’t know how applicable this is to this persons specifically, but here’s some general advice from someone who’s been on both sides (I’m trans), and got a high amount of matches either way.

    Every woman I’ve spoken to about Tinder agrees :

    • Men overwhelmingly have profiles with little to no info in their bio (most often copy-pasted jokes, extremely generic facts like “I like food and music”…)

    • And poorly taken and/or cringe photos (posing with their car, half drunk with half a dozen other people, making a weird face, showing off nonexistent gains…)

    If you want more matches, you need good pictures (not blurry, not from far away, not backlit) that stand out from the rest (especially, no one cares about your car. An expensive car is a huge douchebag redflag), and a bio that actually says something about your hobbies, world view, etc.

    So, in summary, two steps :

    • Actually be an interesting person (probably already true, but hard to fix if not)
    • Communicate that properly (easier than you think, see above)
    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      It’s been a minute, but it was an automatic “no” when someone would answer “what are 5 things you can’t live without” were stuff like food, water, and air. Yes, I know that. Tell me about yourself!

      It was almost always men that answered that way.

      I know I’m incredibly dull. I’m average looking. I was a single parent. A decent picture and a little about myself and I did alright though, even with the ladies.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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        1 month ago

        I have bad news: lots of non-men also post useless stuff like “I can’t live without water lol” or “what are you looking for: my keys lmfao”

        Having a good profile is a skill, probably related to marketing, and some people have neither natural aptitude nor training in it.

        • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 month ago

          Sure, people of every gender do it. I was, at the time, not filtering by gender. I noticed that the useless answers were usually from men.

          It doesn’t mean that men are inherently bad at it (some men had great profiles), but as a whole they presented themselves poorly compared to everyone else.