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CharlotteBergSecondEssay 4 - 02 Apr 2024 - Main.EbenMoglen
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There are hundreds of them, designed to find your perfect match. With options for women to make the first step (“be the CEO your parents always wanted you to marry”), the preferred same lifestyle (“It’s ok to be a GOAL-digger”), apps that are based on the religion (“Where single Muslims meet”) or on any other preference. It seems, as if there is no niche a dating app wouldn’t cover. As of 2023, 25.7 million Americans use dating apps (https://www.statista.com/statistics/274144/smartphone-dating-app-users-usa/) with 10-20 percent of the couples having met over dating platforms (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/). This evident change of dating behavior in the past 10 years leads to a compelling question: Why are we still single? | | | There are hundreds of them, designed to find your perfect match. With options for women to make the first step (“be the CEO your parents always wanted you to marry”), the preferred same lifestyle (“It’s ok to be a GOAL-digger”), apps that are based on the religion (“Where single Muslims meet”) or on any other preference. It seems, as if there is no niche a dating app wouldn’t cover. As of 2023, 25.7 million Americans use dating apps (https://www.statista.com/statistics/274144/smartphone-dating-app-users-usa/) with 10-20 percent of the couples having met over dating platforms (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/). This evident change of dating behavior in the past 10 years leads to a compelling question: Why are we still single? | |
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Wouldn't it make sense to tie these URLs as links to the text, as we normally do in the web, rather than disfiguring the text with URLs that are ugly and distracting? writing or the web isn't that hard. TWiki markdown uses formatting that's easy to learn, or you can just use the "link" symbols on the page editing toolbar.
| | | General Functioning of Dating Apps
Most commonly, dating apps work on the precondition of “being single”, and “mutual physical attraction”: Only if both parties express their interest in each other, they “match” and are able to exchange messages. Hereby, the users rely on the algorithm every dating app is based upon: They (generally) work in two ways: potential partners are either suggested based upon the same interests, similar background etc. or based upon their presumed desirability. Users receiving more likes are generally seen as more desirable and consequently suggested to other people who are seen as equally desirable. These approaches are often mixed though it is not transparent who couples are matched with each other. | | | Alternatives
All these arguments are compelling against dating apps. Still, they count millions o users: how does this “match” the disadvantages? One explanation could be that the pool of possibilities is what keeps the users drawn to these services. Secondly, most apps are radio based, ensuring that the potential love interest is nearby. And thirdly, due to the diversity and specialization of dating apps, he advantages of joining a club, meeting at a place of worship or meeting each other at a work event: similar interests are retained as the same faith or the same professional passion can create a common ground. But dating apps have, in my opinion, one especially strong drawing factor: The fear of being rejected is lower, as no face-to-face interaction happens until a match is achieved. The anxiety whether one is liked back (hence validated) is just not as high since a conversation does not begin until the validation based upon looks (“match”) is achieved. The last drawing factor could be recreated with online spaces that resemble newspaper announces, online forums where users post a search with the information they are willing to submit into the public and give interested others the opportunity to reach out to them. | |
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Yes, the anxiety caused by "rejection" is transferred to the machine, which is what we mean by "convenience" in the context of the Parasite With the Mind of God. Darwin's most basic point in The Descent of Man (that human development is driven primarily by female sexual selection) has many consequences for a lawyer's understanding of human behavior. This, as you see, is the Parasite's primary way of interacting with human natural selection. As usual, technology built primarily y males to address their discomfort with "rejection" is not necessarily optimal for the species and is far from optimal for women's freedom. No doubt there are many ways you could take your draft further. But it certainly has been good learning for you, so well done.
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