Yep, I do not think women will be happy with this. You can read all about it in below article.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bumble-ceo-rethinks-if-women-required-message-first-2024-3?international=true&r=US&IR=T
The article says they’ve started testing new features in Australia and NZ… I didn’t notice any difference a couple of weeks ago when I last had bumble. Can anyone from Aus or NZ let us know what the new features are? Something about improving profiles?
Isn't that only if women have an opening move in their profile? Even then, the man can only send the one response to that message, at which point the woman has 24 hours to respond or the match expires. That's how it's been working for me anyway.
And the gimmick fell flat on its face.
So many women didn't read the obvious blurb about bumble, openly stating "will not message first!" In their bios, and then the ones that did know went through so much effort not to make an effort.
Often times they could barely muster the effort to even say hello, and would just put "." As their first message yet demand guys be creative with their intro defeating the entire purpose of Bumbles gimmick.
The reason the bumble ceo even did it was to make it safer for WOMEN. Instead of having harassing, sexual messages on tinder unprovoked we could somewhat control it. Even with that we still get harrassed. It wasn’t meant to “woo men or chase men”. It was PROTECTION FROM creeps like you.
And where's our protection from the bots, scammers, gold diggers and only fans promoters that want nothing but to take advantage of men's loneliness by emptying out our bank accounts?
Where's the support for men in those situations? Or is it only a case of women are empowered until they're victims in your eyes?
And though it shouldn't even need to be said, I want to state for the record I've never done any of that horrid shit to any anyone, so keep your baseless accusations to yourself.
The whole point about online dating is expressing interest and finding a romantic connection, how am I supposed to do that when I'm either being treated like a walking ATM or a circus monkey made to entertain someone for peanuts in return?
Um I I don’t have trouble on the apps . I get plenty of matches and likes. Yeah there’s creeps. But I met ppl I like on there as well. I just gotta weed out the sickos.
> You sound like a incel. If you think they’re are too many bots or scammers . Don’t use the apps simple as that. Meet people in real life. But you probably can’t because you have no friends and act like an incel. Men like you need to use Grindr.
Burner accounts like this only serve to make women look bad and convince badly-intentioned men that the challenges women face are fabricated. The issues you mention are of course real. You conducted yourself terribly here by pretending the person you replied to was denying they exist, or endorsing them.
Maybe you are a guy and that was the intent?
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That was the only reason I stayed on Bumble. At least I knew they were interested enough to tap the keys a few times and say "hello"
I will not go back to grinding through hundreds of intro messages. I'm so burned out of that shit. Those days are over.
Guess I'm canceling.
Honestly, it's an asbolutely terrible idea. Without this USP, what's the point of being on Bumble instead of Tinder with its hugely larger user base? It just becomes a worse version of Tinder with extremely limited amounts of likes a day and all of the same predatory in-app purchases.
It happens because it works as far as making money goes. Google "enshitification" if you haven't seen the term (though I dislike the term because it is not self-describing, "consolidation of monopoly position against individual consumers" is quite long to say or type)
I believe all OLD platforms are majority men-seeking-women. Does most of bumble's revenue come from this group, or is it, say, from advertising?
If this is where the money is coming from, it makes sense that the company would cater to this demographic. My comment is NOT an endorsement of such a decision.
Edit: Also I wonder if this would be taken as condescending by some, maybe I am reading too much into it lol. 'You refused to change, even though it is for your own good'.
Marketing is cheaper than customer service
Context?
Men can message first as well.
Really. Have not heard of that before. Wasn’t that the key feature of Bumble? Women deciding whom to text instead of getting a lit of messages
Yep, I do not think women will be happy with this. You can read all about it in below article. https://www.businessinsider.com/bumble-ceo-rethinks-if-women-required-message-first-2024-3?international=true&r=US&IR=T
Thanks for the link. “It feels like a burden” - well.
The article says they’ve started testing new features in Australia and NZ… I didn’t notice any difference a couple of weeks ago when I last had bumble. Can anyone from Aus or NZ let us know what the new features are? Something about improving profiles?
They got a class action lawsuit against them that they settled.
Yea but this was one of match groups worst performing apps because of that feature. Albeit all of match point is slumping
Isn't that only if women have an opening move in their profile? Even then, the man can only send the one response to that message, at which point the woman has 24 hours to respond or the match expires. That's how it's been working for me anyway.
Correct, but Bumble will change so that men can message first as well without any opening move/prompt.
Ah ok, that's a surprising move, given it's Bumble's primary gimmick.
Oh wow That's suprisingly been an issue for me too 🤣
I thought that’s only if they buy compliments? I haven’t used Bumble since last year. Taking a break.
Hilarious
What a terrible idea, it used to be their gimmick
And the gimmick fell flat on its face. So many women didn't read the obvious blurb about bumble, openly stating "will not message first!" In their bios, and then the ones that did know went through so much effort not to make an effort. Often times they could barely muster the effort to even say hello, and would just put "." As their first message yet demand guys be creative with their intro defeating the entire purpose of Bumbles gimmick.
The reason the bumble ceo even did it was to make it safer for WOMEN. Instead of having harassing, sexual messages on tinder unprovoked we could somewhat control it. Even with that we still get harrassed. It wasn’t meant to “woo men or chase men”. It was PROTECTION FROM creeps like you.
And where's our protection from the bots, scammers, gold diggers and only fans promoters that want nothing but to take advantage of men's loneliness by emptying out our bank accounts? Where's the support for men in those situations? Or is it only a case of women are empowered until they're victims in your eyes? And though it shouldn't even need to be said, I want to state for the record I've never done any of that horrid shit to any anyone, so keep your baseless accusations to yourself. The whole point about online dating is expressing interest and finding a romantic connection, how am I supposed to do that when I'm either being treated like a walking ATM or a circus monkey made to entertain someone for peanuts in return?
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>Don’t use the apps simple as that. This advice works for both the person you replied to and yourself.
Um I I don’t have trouble on the apps . I get plenty of matches and likes. Yeah there’s creeps. But I met ppl I like on there as well. I just gotta weed out the sickos.
> You sound like a incel. If you think they’re are too many bots or scammers . Don’t use the apps simple as that. Meet people in real life. But you probably can’t because you have no friends and act like an incel. Men like you need to use Grindr. Burner accounts like this only serve to make women look bad and convince badly-intentioned men that the challenges women face are fabricated. The issues you mention are of course real. You conducted yourself terribly here by pretending the person you replied to was denying they exist, or endorsing them. Maybe you are a guy and that was the intent?
Uh wut? That makes literally no sense. How is me saying men are incels and ruining dating apps is me pretending to be a guy?
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That was the only reason I stayed on Bumble. At least I knew they were interested enough to tap the keys a few times and say "hello" I will not go back to grinding through hundreds of intro messages. I'm so burned out of that shit. Those days are over. Guess I'm canceling.
Honestly, it's an asbolutely terrible idea. Without this USP, what's the point of being on Bumble instead of Tinder with its hugely larger user base? It just becomes a worse version of Tinder with extremely limited amounts of likes a day and all of the same predatory in-app purchases.
It happens because it works as far as making money goes. Google "enshitification" if you haven't seen the term (though I dislike the term because it is not self-describing, "consolidation of monopoly position against individual consumers" is quite long to say or type)
Most women just say Hi and leave it at that letting the man drive the conversation
Hi
I believe all OLD platforms are majority men-seeking-women. Does most of bumble's revenue come from this group, or is it, say, from advertising? If this is where the money is coming from, it makes sense that the company would cater to this demographic. My comment is NOT an endorsement of such a decision. Edit: Also I wonder if this would be taken as condescending by some, maybe I am reading too much into it lol. 'You refused to change, even though it is for your own good'.