Bumble now lets men make the first move
Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 — but now the times they are a-changin’ for the dating app. It was about designing an experience with women’s needs in mind to create better outcomes for everyone,” Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said in a statement. “Today, our community is asking for more flexibility, less pressure, and more opportunities to create real, meaningful connections and that is what this new experience provides.
- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 — but now the times the
- ▪It was about designing an experience with women’s needs in mind to create better outcomes for everyone,” Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said in a statement.
- ▪“Today, our community is asking for more flexibility, less pressure, and more opportunities to create real, meaningful connections and that is what this new experience provides.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Bumble ditches its rule that kept men from making the first move — TechCrunch
- ▪ Why Bumble now allows men to message first — Mashable
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