[throwawaysea]

I was referring to activities like swiping perpetually, or behaviors like ghosting - things that take time but do not ultimately help people connect. These apps encourage a lot of window shopping and there is certainly a power imbalance in favor of women in most dating apps, but particularly in Bumble since only women can initiate conversations. All of these are unrelated to the actual effort of cultivating a relationship.

[ralphstodomingo]

Fair enough. A lot of these features actually just aim to engage these people and are not straightforwardly informing them of their attractiveness to the market, because that makes money apparently. I agree that it's unrelated and even perhaps unnecessary.