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01 Jul 2016, 8:29 am

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/dating-apps-flurry/

and pssst...many of this 36% are fake accounts made by the apps owners to keep men active.

So guys, if you ever wondered why you receive few replies there, that's why.

So girls, if you ever wondered why you receive a lot of messages thee, that's why too.



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01 Jul 2016, 8:33 am

These are more recent numbers..

But also never forget the fake accounts.

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01 Jul 2016, 11:26 pm

How could you tell if those are fake or real?


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02 Jul 2016, 8:56 am

Drawyer wrote:
How could you tell if those are fake or real?


Those with one-picture and model-like are always fake.



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02 Jul 2016, 9:06 am

Although I question the scientific rigors of the test, the results should be no surprise: look at last year's Ashley Madison blowup, where they admitted half the profiles were fake.



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02 Jul 2016, 9:18 am

Aristophanes wrote:
Although I question the scientific rigors of the test, the results should be no surprise: look at last year's Ashley Madison blowup, where they admitted half the profiles were fake.


I question more the honesty of those app owners, they're businessmen after all, what's more profitable for them is not really helping you to find someone but to keep you using the app even if they know that their app has very few women.
So an imbalanced sex ratio would push those owners to create tons of fake female profile to keep the larger segment of users (males) to remain.

Ashley Madison blowup exposed how much of sausage fest it was, 20 MILLIONS of active men vs only 2500 active woman- 90% of female profiles were fake.
http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-w ... 1725558944

I really hope one day Okcupid/pof and other popular dating apps to be hacked as well, and to expose the real sex ratio there (I bet it's even way more imbalanced than the formal stats).



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02 Jul 2016, 9:30 am

Well, it shouldn't be shocking and it's not like it's going to stop. As I've said before, drop food into a pool of schooling fish and see how quickly they all rush to the center for a piece-- nature. Bait is bait, whether it's artificial or real.



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02 Jul 2016, 2:16 pm

Some of the men on dating sites seem to have more than one profile on the same site too.



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02 Jul 2016, 3:13 pm

slw1990 wrote:
Some of the men on dating sites seem to have more than one profile on the same site too.

That's either a case of people forgetting by their profile exists and making a new one or making up two identities and seeing which one women prefer.


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02 Jul 2016, 5:20 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
These are more recent numbers..

But also never forget the fake accounts.

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imagine how many fake Christians are on Christian Mingle

the list forgot JDate btw!



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02 Jul 2016, 8:49 pm

What kind of sausage, bratwurst, knockwurst, Italian, chorizo?


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02 Jul 2016, 10:12 pm

brat, sauerkraut, stadium sauce

I'm hungry



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03 Jul 2016, 4:19 am

Jacoby wrote:
brat, sauerkraut, stadium sauce

I'm hungry

Weiners?

Ah... fake profiles are unfortunately part and parcel with dating sites.
Some are made by the site owners and scammers are also about.


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04 Jul 2016, 1:34 am

Jacoby wrote:
imagine how many fake Christians are on Christian Mingle

the list forgot JDate btw!

Actually, this confirms my experience with a local christian dating site. Because women on average tend to be more religious, it makes sense that there's more of them on religious sites.