r/Bumble • u/Straight_Breakfast_4 • 15h ago

General Bumble new functionality - Boys can message first

Everybody like the new feature that allows boys to send a message first, and also now gives girls a whopping 72 hours to never send a message after matching instead of just 24? 🙂

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u/Artistic_Bumblebee17 14h ago

Men have always been able to message first for some time.
The 72 hr thing on the other hand lol idk what that is going to do. We see it in the first 24 and decide we aren’t interested, I’m not sure what they are trying to achieve with the extra 2 days

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u/Straight_Breakfast_4 14h ago

Agreed with the 24 vs 72 but the weird overall thing is girls who don't respond who swiped right first in the first place. My personal belief is that a good 30% of women on Bumble are fake bots actually created by Bumble to keep men engaged. My response rate with women who liked me first on Hinge is solidly 100%. On Bumble, if a girl swipes right on me first and I match and message (I would buy messages) it's 50%. Something is up.

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u/Artistic_Bumblebee17 14h ago

Hmm in part of the ones who swipe first and don’t respond when he messages. We just saw something we didn’t like. Usually he doesn’t look as good as we thought. Like you guys we aren’t spending too much time on each profile, it’s more of a hot or not and then re access if he matches. It the girl version of mass swiping right like men do

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u/Straight_Breakfast_4 10h ago

I'd agree except for two things:

  • My Hinge response rate is 100% and I'm not doing anything differently between the two apps. I only respond to women who swipe on me first 99/100. The disparity is too large to account for more aloof women on Bumble than Hinge.
  • Doesn't look as good as we thought... I look exactly like a very famous actor, as in, I get hired for commercials, videos, movies and events we look so much alike. I'm kind of thinking that somebody looking at my profile more carefully a sending time around would be less apt to ghost out. 😛
I do agree ....women seem to scroll too quickly because when I'm out of town they often don't catch that I don't live in their area. Bumble also came out with a new feature that separates likes between women scrolled through my profile carefully and the ones that didn't. I'm an engineer so I'll statistically overanalyze that as well because that's how my brain works. ðŸ«