Jonathan Badeen
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219 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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And I think it kind of all goes back, you know, you're talking about profiles and injecting fun into it, how important that is because you're essentially trying to give an idea of what going on a date with you is going to be like. And you don't want to go on a date with somebody who you're not going to have fun with.
So if you're able to inject some fun into your profile, it gives a hint of like, look, we're going to have some fun. That's just hugely important.
Yeah, you're not going to be miserable all night. I think what most people are just trying to avoid is misery. Yes.
I mean, I float somewhere in between. I think some people might call me introverted. Some people might call me extroverted. It kind of depends on the situation. But I think, you know, from my own experience, the places where my introvertedness kind of showed was that sort of, especially in those nervousness. And I think the more you practice, the better.
And so, you know, go out on those dates and just feel like, you know, as much as possible. And... You might even think like, hey, look, next five dates, they're going to suck. They're all going to suck or something. Actually, hope for something good. But at the same time, reduce the pressure on it and just use it as experience to get yourself more comfortable.
And the only way to do that is to not... To not make the stakes high, I think. Practice makes perfect. There's a lot of women out there who are introverted, too. That might be a good thing for you, but at the same time, it's gonna make it a little bit harder for you to meet. So somebody's gotta step up and try to act a little bit more extroverted to make it work.
Exactly.
Well, it's certainly, you know, there's algorithm. I don't even know what the current algorithm is. It changes over time. Including the ELO thing was real. That was a way of just trying to better match people. But there's a lot of things that end up going into it. And one of the things that really is heavily used, we found over the years, was just like, was recency.
So that one's an important one. You got to keep using it. And I'm not like, again, I'm not there. I'm not making money off of this. But just telling you kind of how things work is that you have to keep using the thing because we want to show other, like we don't want to match somebody up. We didn't want to match somebody up with somebody who was not going to be there to answer them.
We were able to observe that the better chance of a conversation happening and thus ultimately success on Tinder was...
that conversation happening and therefore the the increase the the more recently somebody used the app the higher the chance of that happening so that was like actually one of the big one of the big levers that really uh there was so that's one of those things you kind of you do have to kind of be active on there in order to to get those um uh matches um you know
I'm sure the algorithm can hurt some people and help people, but it's something that they constantly are looking at and trying to adjust because ultimately they want the same thing as you. They want you to meet people.
I know some people, there's conspiracy theories out there about like, no, they don't want you to meet, you know, they just want you on there all the time and that they want you to, they're holding everything back until, you know, start paying them. None of that's true. The best advertising for Tinder was a successful use case, whether that be hookups or whether that be marriage or whatever.
Those are the people that were going to get the other people on the platform. We didn't care if we lost some people to a wedding. That was amazing. That was how we were going to get more people in. If you blame the app... you're never going to be able to conquer the app. I will say that.
I'm not saying everything's going to work for you exactly the way you want it to and that there might be something back there that's getting in your way on the algorithm or whatever. But ultimately, if you think that way, it's going to be really hard to improve yourself and make it better if you're blaming something else. Even if it ends up not being you, right?
Use it as an opportunity to improve it.
Absolutely.
No, and the better you make your profile too, I don't know what the current algorithm is, but it probably does hurt you to have just one photo. Years ago, we did research too where we found that there were a certain number of photos, and obviously not every photo is equal to the next, but your likelihood of matching increased with every photo that you added to your profile up to a certain extent.
I don't know what that, I don't remember what that number was, but so that was ended up being kind of one of our goals is like, try to encourage users to add photos up to this point, uh, to increase their chances of success. Um, and so I wouldn't be surprised if the algorithm, you know, takes things like that in, uh, you know, factors that in, but ultimately I don't know what it is at the moment.
It's usually praising. Every once in a while, somebody will say something, but I think most people probably, if they had bad experiences, they might keep it to themselves to be nice to me, I guess. But no, I've had... There's just so many weddings. I think the... You know, now there's been so many that I, you know, they kind of just blur together.
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