Love and mathematics. Algorithms for which the dating services work

Thanks to mobile technology, we were able to “hack” even relationships. We are talking about large dating applications, thanks to which the problem of loneliness is solved for someone every day, someone finds a company in a new city, and someone even makes an offer. Our parents simply did not have such an easy way to find a partner. Therefore, we are glad that we have it, and we understand what we need to know in order to increase our chances of success, starting to master the dating service.

Why do some people have more attractive choices than others?

Familiarity with people in online services as opposed to casual street meetings is much more subordinated to science. That is, the application has certain algorithms that affect how often you are shown to other users and whom the application slips to you. You can understand nothing about this, but it is worth trying in practice a few universal tips – at first glance obvious, but from no less effective. By changing your behavior model in the dating service and even simply by updating a couple of photos, you can greatly increase your chances of a successful acquaintance.

Why activity is important and what it means to fill out a profile correctly

Active life position is welcomed everywhere, and the world of online is no exception. The dating service algorithms work in such a way that your activity in the application affects how often your profile is shown in someone else’s tape. So if you open the hunting season, then hunt! Do not be silent when they write to you, send messages first, study the profiles of other users and do not skimp on likes. The system analyzes your preferences and adjusts personal issue in accordance with them. The more you mark yes / no, the higher the probability of having a match with the right candidate – it’s like a dice, the more often you throw it, the more chances you have to throw six at once.

Responsible to fill out a personal profile. After all, as you know, there will be no second chance to make a first impression. And your profile is something that a person will take a quick look at, after which he will decide whether you are suitable or not. Badoo has an option to put on the avatar not only a photo, but also a video! Use this feature to stand out.

The rating service is not a place where your “mysteriousness” will be appreciated, or rather, the service algorithms simply do not understand what to do with it, because in order to bring you with the right candidates, the application needs as much information about you as possible. Nobody asks for personal data – only hobbies, preferences and type of activity. So do not be lazy to fill in the field with your interests. This helps the application select users with similar requests and offer you exactly those who are also going to the electronic music festival next month or are planning to ride horses this weekend.

For the same purpose – searching for people by interests – in some applications, geolocation determination works. For example, users of the largest international dating service Badoo, when they go to a cafe, gym or any other interesting place, can see other users nearby and invite some of them to drink coffee together or another joint run. This is especially true if you go traveling without a company. Deuting service is the best way to secure an interesting walk in the evening around a foreign city with a pleasant interlocutor. In addition, the application provides an opportunity to see those who are interested in the profile in the "Visitors" section, and those who would like to start chatting right now – "Sympathies".

The rule of three photos

Experienced users of dating services are advised to put at least three photos: one clearly shows your face – not like in your passport, but not covered with your hands, shadow, or cap. Yes, maybe it's stylish, but probably the other person will think that you have something to hide. The second – in full growth, it makes no sense to deceive a person by hiding everything below the neck. At the first meeting, he will still see your extreme thinness or, on the contrary, Kim Kardashian’s uniform, and you will never guess in advance what will attract or repel a partner from this. Do not put yourself and a person in an awkward position. The third shot should show your passion, which will allow the other person to cling to the topic and develop the conversation. The importance of the last picture is confirmed by statistics: according to analysts of the Badoo dating service, an absolute majority of men (39%) will appreciate a photo taken somewhere in the mountains, at sea or any other nature, then go to your selfie from the gym (27%) and the third place – a photo from the holiday (19%). If you have photos on sap-surfing or from Disneyland, it's time to upload them!

Choosing the main profile photo, you should know that almost 50% of both men and women swipe to the left strongly retouched photos. As for the selfie genre as such, they are annoying to 25% of women. Although men feel more comfortable with women’s selfies, so let them not embarrass you that you yourself made your best portrait.

Unbelievable five-year-old snapshots are a problem that advanced online dating services know and struggle with. Firstly, including the option for this, they have now introduced an option with a video on the avatar, which was mentioned earlier – it is technically more difficult to lie on the video. Secondly, for example, the Badoo service has a feature such as “Self Forward”. You ask the guy for his photo, and if he agrees, access to the gallery on his phone is temporarily blocked – you need to shoot yourself right now. There is no chance to send a picture from the “15 kg ago” series. If that white-toothed Spaniard rejected your request for selfie, you can draw conclusions.

Statistics to help

Obviously, lying in the application about age and profession is a rather strange idea. At least, if you are exactly going to go beyond the exchange of emoji in the virtual world. Here it will be useful to know the statistics: the numbers should be a more convincing guide for you.

In the West, the “half plus seven” rule was once formulated, which describes the maximum allowable age difference between partners. That is, we divide the age of one partner by two and add seven – this is the minimum age of the second partner. But according to a Badoo dating service survey, this rule does not apply to millennials – 18% of respondents went on dates with a person 10 years older than themselves, and 8% of millenials set the upper search limit in the dating application at around 50 years.

Therefore, when you specify age limits for your desired partner, it is better to make them wider. And let you not be afraid of stereotypes that, for example, a man should not be younger. There are a lot of examples in the classics, among the stars, and, probably, in your environment, proving the opposite. And you should indicate your age honestly – you do not know what others are looking for. Here, perhaps, there can be one fair restriction – 18+.

Of course, you shouldn’t lie about work and position, especially to add importance to yourself. Moreover, your ideas about which profession attracts the opposite sex can be very different from reality. If you believe the latest data from Badoo analysts, users of the application pay attention to quite earthly professions: women are most often attracted to marketers, entrepreneurs and engineers, then lawyers go and only in fifth place are representatives of creative professions – photographers.

But men often fall for the "creative" – ​​the female top was headed by makeup artists, then designers and journalists. Nurses here too – in fourth place. And, oddly enough, lawyers are also included in both ratings – they go right after the medics. But this top should not be taken as an absolute reflection of the real attractiveness of this or that work, it is necessary to make an amendment that, in principle, it is easier to meet a designer in life than a trainer and a politician, and everyone who opened the application most likely understands this.

From correspondence to business

Do not forget why all these people are here. And all these photos, security checks, issuance algorithms and other online communication tools are needed only to get to the point in offline. The mission of a good dating application is one: to improve your technologies so as to help users meet in real life, and even not necessarily start a romantic relationship, but find a new friend or diversify the evening with a date instead of endless paging profiles in the application. And the Badoo service in this matter is the most generous assistant: the number of its users is greater than the population of the United States — almost 400 million. And every day, 300,000 new users join the Badoo community, perhaps one of them is “the very one”.

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