Dating App Rawview for the Average SG guy

Today officially marks my one-month reusing Dating apps as, my title reads, an average 30s SG male.

Seeing frequent Dating-related posts here and other Singapore Reddit groups, as well as Kopi Date ads popping up my social media feed prompted me re-opening Pandra's box and try them again, after "retiring" for five good years.

What's more? Paid for additional features, like unlimited likes and seeing who likes my profile before matching them.

So, here's my rawview (especially for new apps like Bumble, Hinge, and Boo):

Bumble: Most legit app, having most matches and only encountering one scammer. But, conversations didn't last after fourth exchange (at most) before being ghosted. Also, got quickly unmatched a few times, likely as I got "accidentally" swiped right.

Coffee Meets Bagel: Second most number of matches, but beats Bumble with longer meaningful conversations lol. However, still ghosted by everyone.

OkCupid: Just a handful of matches with immediate ghosting. Also, found many foreigners strangely liking my profile. Obviously, didn't match with them as they held a number of red flags. Another interesting observation is it mostly consists of 20-30yr olds.

Tinder: 1 match with immediate ghosting. Like OkCupid, found a number of potential matches I completely avoided

Boo: Stopped after fourth day as only guy "friends" liked my profile instead of women. In case you don't know, Boo has this weird feature letting you "blue-heart" people as "Friends" while "Pink Hearts" mean dates. I'm open to friends, but using blue hearts is just weird since I'm a straight guy.

Hinge: Best. Recreated my account four times in two weeks (as the app somehow keeps deleting it), before being permanently banned. Honestly, not sure why but I think the app did so as "filtering" users with little to no matches. Only had three matches, with one quickly unmatching after realising I wasn't a Pilot(as she initially thought from one of my prompts saying "Flying is my superpower")

Overall, the "landscape" has become slightly more legit, mainly with Bumble and Coffee meets Bagel having the "least sus" interfaces and most Singaporeans (at least those my age).

I also enjoyed talking to new people, though it was overall short-lived.

As such, the average guy still won't benefit much as they're also dating apps, raising anyone's expectation to swiping and talking to the next more successful chaz.

All in all, don't invest too much hope and join interest groups for more meaningful meetings instead. Leave these apps to the "pros" (e.g., pilots, business owners, lawyers, bankers, doctors, software engineers) who'll actually connect with others.

Anyone else will just get scammed or have "swole" fingers from endlessly swiping.

Likewise, I'm finally ending my "experiment", starting with not paying anymore and deleting these apps after today.

It was fun, but only wanted to try them out.