Reply #21 doghead's post
Personally I've not had a lot of success with them - I've made lots of friends, but not too many FBs.
Which makes Tagged stand out.
Social meeting apps are a highly fluid phenomenon - the best analogy would be chasing trendy bars. Apps seem to have a life-cycle - they start off unknown, then they get hip and attract the fashionable crowd, then they get swamped with the me-toos, then the hip crowd move on and the whole thing dies. The whole cycle can take several years.
So whether it works for you depends on
- who you are
- where the app is in its lifecycle
- the underlying demographic of the app
- how you play
A bit like golf really. There is no one game of golf - every course, every player, every day of play is completely different, leading to different outcomes.
Each app seems to appeal to a very different social group. Tagged is definitely the place for Hong Kong DHs. QQ, 遇见, 微信 and others are more chinese.
Can't comment too much on which app to use where - but other threads have an ongoing commentary on the effectiveness of QQ and WeChat in different cities. I've heard rumours that Badoo and MoMo are working well at the moment.
At the end of the day, there is no Killer App for getting laid. At least, not yet. So that makes any user a pioneer to a certain degree. You have to find your own way, notice what works, and then share your observations! When you share, someone else will share his own successes ...
At the end of the day, as with any internet application, the Apps don't actually do something new. The ones that work are in essence speeding up what is still an underlying human dynamic: to meet someone who scratches your own particular type of itch.
Which means, the bigger the pool, and the faster you play, the more likely you are to connect with someone who wants to jump your bones. If you're good at that game, you have the skills to make the Apps work for you.
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