Silent Generation

Ep. 48: Online Dating w/ Breanna [TEASER]


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This week Joseph and Nathan are joined by Breanna, a Silent Generation listener who works as a software engineer for a major online dating company, to discuss online dating. They detail the early history of online dating (such as how the first person to develop a computer based dating service was a working class British woman named Joan Ball) before sharing their experiences with online dating websites and apps such as Match.com, Hinge, Tinder, Okcupid, and The League. Amongst other things they discuss how dating apps replaced ELO algorithms with Gale-Shapley algorithms, how a recent study found that NYC was the worst major US city for dating, and how Chicago attracts “coastal dating app refugees” who seek an easier dating market. 

 

Links:

How heterosexual couples met graph
The Mother of All Swipes by Mar Hicks
Whitney Wolfe, founder of dating app Bumble, has had quite the year. She just can’t discuss parts of it by Todd C. Frankel 
Hinge’s newest feature claims to use machine learning to find your best match by Ashley Carman
Towards a statistical physics of dating apps by Fabrizio Olmeda
The Uncanny Swipe Drive: The Return of a Racist Mode of Algorithmic Thought on Dating Apps by Greggory Narr
Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating by Apryl Williams and Kendra Albert
Race and Attraction, 2009 – 2014 from Oktrends 
NYC is the ‘worst’ US city for dating by Asia Grace
River Page Grindr Tweet
Hot Gays, Body Image, & Comparison by Hellvetika 
What is the dating culture in Chicago like? Reddit post
Asian gay immigrant looking to relocate to Chicago from LA? Reddit post

Artwork:

First boot in 17 years, all on 90’s equipment

Recorded on 11/10/2024

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