Cafeaulait wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
^ CafeAulait found her bf there.
You put too much fait that it's just for hookup or that okcupid is much different and better.
Believe me, most women there swipe guys' photos in their inbox in the same way.
Lol.... my boyfriend was on both OkCupid AND Tinder. He said women on OkCupid are no better/smarter/less-superficial/less-issued than women on tinder. The only thing you know is that the OkCupid women are more certainly looking for a serious relationship... but they are no more interesting or better partners.
Your boyfriend is right: Tinder is theoretically better than Okcupid, by far I would say.
First, the Tinder profile is linked to the person's facebook pictures, so one wouldn't be able to put the sexiest/least honest photos on it since they are the same pics on fb, and you can just add a simple one personal text description - this is really enough as a first glimpse. I don't get why it's considered a "Hookup" app while Okc is not, the Hookup reputation I think comes from its sister app Grinder (For gays) but it's not necessarily true for Tinder, the Tinder-FB link makes it a poor choice for men-women hookup.
Secondly, at least, from a pure MALE view, before I chat with a 'match' I would be totally sure that she finds me attractive at the very least, otherwise she wouldn't be a 'match' in the first place.
It's the chat feature which is the most important in Tinder for two to know if they are matching mind-wise. Chat is instant, more natural than a long Okc profile, and there's less time to sculpt things for an ideal projection.
Tinder is more like real life than Okc, The "match" is the first glimpse in real life, and the chat is the first conversation. On okcupid, there's more room for self-exaggeration and self-sculpting in the profile's content, safer to put less honest photos since it's less likely to be seen by real life friends, and the whole questions/matching system and the whole profile structure there encourages the person to "sculpt" everything (and they get advice from others what to put and how to word things) - the final outcome rarely projects the real person.
Also the girls on okcupid get tons of spam messages from desperate guys, so they start to develop a poor and suspicious view on all guys on okc; guys on okc are very stigmatized (as desperate or pervert) by girls until proving otherwise. Also girls on okc find it hard to concentrate with one guy on chat due to the dozens of messages and chat requests they get by the minutes - this is not the case on Tinder.