Finding a fling, the love of your life, or friendship through dating apps is not a new phenomenon. It works simply: just one click, and we've already found what we're looking for. But it's not that simple, because we are becoming more and more demanding when it comes to finding what really interests us. This research reveals what turns us off the most on dating apps.
Lack of authenticity human contact online means that when choosing what we are interested in, we have to orientate ourselves by what kind of profile does the person have. Too often we pay attention to what other people's profiles look like, but we forget to ask ourselves what our own profile is like.
Dating app Badoo has recently performed research to what attracts users who looking for love, to like (swipe right) of a specific user. Research in which it participated 5000 users, showed interesting results.
54 % women say they don't like it (swipe left), if they see a photo of a man taken with a woman. What definitely repels them, however, are photos of men taking pictures shirtless or in the gym.
Interestingly, users of dating apps have love photos of dogs: 29 % women and 21 % men like photos with also an animal.
Here are women's opinions about men's photos:
Women say they like it (swipe right):
Photo taken in the countryside – 30 percent
A photo with a dog – 29 percent
Photo showing tattoos – 18 percent
A man with a beard – 18 percent
Photo showing the car – 7 percent
Photo with an attractive woman – 2 percent
Photo in the gym – 8 percent
Women say they don't like it (swipe left):
Photo with an attractive woman – 54 percent
Group photos that make it difficult to determine whose profile it is – 49 percent
Shirtless photo – 47 percent
Photo in the gym – 37 percent
Self in the mirror – 32 percent
Photo showing the car – 29 percent
A man with a beard – 22 percent
Photo showing tattoos – 19 percent
Men they think so about women's photos:
Men say they like (swipe right):
Photo in underwear or bikini – 33 percent
Photography in the countryside – 33 percent
Photo in the gym – 25 percent
Self in the mirror – 21 percent
A photo with a dog – 21 percent
Photo showing tattoos – 14 percent
A photo of a woman riding a horse – 12 percent
Photo showing the car – 11 percent
A photo with an attractive man – 8 percent
Men say they don't like it (swipe left):
Group photos that make it difficult to determine whose profile it is – 40 percent
A photo with an attractive man – 34 percent
Photo with a Snapchat filter – 29 percent
A photo that is fully accessible on the profile – 21 percent
Photo in underwear – 20 percent
Self in the mirror – 19 percent
Photo showing the car – 15 percent
A photo of a cat or dog – 14 percent
A photo of a woman riding a horse –12 percent
