Saara Lassila is popular on Tinder, Jani Lyytinen is not, but for both of them it’s a tricky situation. In this article, an expert explains how Tinder’s algorithm works.
Despite her popular Tinder profile, Lassila finds the dating app exhausting. Likes don’t always even lead to a conversation, and conversations are easily left hanging in the air and don’t lead to meetings.
In Lassila’s opinion, the chat culture on Tinder is superficial and disposable.
Lassila believes that successful photos and the addition of a text field on Tinder can influence the number of likes. She recognises that Tinder is an appearance-centric site, where likes often rain down on stereotypically good-looking people.
Take these into account when creating your Tinder profile:
– For example, I belong to the category of urban woman, interested in feminism, vegan food, art and culture, Janakka says.
Profiling affects what kind of people you come across on Tinder.
– State clearly what you are looking for there. If you’re looking for sex, say so. If you’re in a relationship, say so. Honesty makes you appreciate the profile more, says Janakka.
Although women have been found to gain attention with scantily clad images, the same has not been found for men.
– It is then done through discussions and dates. A Tinder profile should only be pleasing to as many people as possible if you want to get a lot of likes there, says Janakka.
– When I changed my Tinder profile to be more specific, so that my personality would be emphasized more with both my photos and the bio text, I got significantly fewer likes, says Janakka.
Tinder is a one-time use culture, say users
Lyytinen works as a merchant in Savonlinna.
Lyytinen says that he has repeatedly had to face disappointments on Tinder. He feels that it is challenging to get likes on Tinder, even though he has added several photos to his profile and is seriously on the move in the application.
Tinder’s level of requirements is unreasonable and without a truly original profile it is difficult to get matches on Tinder, he says. There doesn’t seem to be a demand for normal-looking men on Tinder. Despite the fact that Lyytinen himself feels that he is active in the application, it has been difficult to find a partner there.
Janakka consoles men who have received few likes with the fact that there are significantly fewer women than men on Tinder. It has been studied that in the majority of cities male users make up 70% of all Tinder users. There are therefore significantly more men per woman in the application.
– Even if you start the conversation yourself, it rarely leads to a conversation on Tinder. They don’t always even respond to messages there.
In Tinder, users are mainly judged on the basis of photos, which is why many of the respondents to Yle’s Tinder survey have found the application superficial. People are treated as disposable because there is so much to choose from.
Lyytinen says that on Tinder it is difficult to bring out different aspects of yourself as quickly as the application would require in order to convince other users. In addition, creating a deep connection is difficult on Tinder.
– On Tinder, the fact that there was more to give is often left in the tooth.
Likes and messages remain “floating” on Tinder
Saara Lassila says that a large number of likes does not make using Tinder easy, but on the contrary, it may lead to difficulty in choosing Tinder and exhaustion.
From a large number of matches, it is difficult to know with whom it makes sense to start a conversation. On Tinder, you rarely know for what purpose its users are using it, so it is challenging to take the conversations seriously.
– I feel that many people on Tinder would like to search for \”something more\ but when the atmosphere is such that \”nothing serious can be done about this now\ the contact easily withers away.
Lassila feels that it doesn’t matter if there are many or few likes on Tinder, because they rarely lead to anything in the application. This is because Tinder users are rarely serious about the app or are already tired of using the app.
– I wish I would get less likes, because it doesn’t change anything, even though there are a lot of them out there. There’s a lot that doesn’t interest me.
The lack of likes, the application’s superficiality and ghosting have led Jani Lyytinen to become frustrated and delete the application several times. Ghosting refers to a situation in which the other party stops communication suddenly without giving a reason.
Saara Lassila also says that she got tired of using the application several times, which has led to the removal of the application. Despite her popular and liked Tinder profile, she would rather meet new people in real life. He hopes that people would approach each other more boldly than they do now outside of Tinder in \”normal life\”.
– In my opinion, it’s really sad that people nowadays mainly look for love through social media, and don’t put so much effort into social interactions. I have, for example, been asked to go on a date on the streets. It would be important to remember the importance of presence and not constantly stare at the phone.
Jenni Janakka, who discussed Tinder in her book, points out that Tinder is a commercial application where the algorithm is used as a tool to achieve the greatest possible profits. From the point of view of Tinder’s commercial operation, it is therefore better that the users of the application do not pair up but continue to browse Tinder.
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