Coffee Meets Bagel: What is Coffee Meets Bagel? (post 1)

 Coffee meets Bagel is a dating app that claims to revolutionize the dating experience. Unlike Tinder, Bumble, or Hinge it eliminates the swipe-model (CMB, 2021). Instead, the app picks the best suited people for you to match with based on its AI algorithm once a day at noon. The way the AI algorithm works is it favours the quality of matches over the quantity of matches a person receives, it does this by examining a person’s profile and finding similarities on others.. From the matches a chat room then opens up for a limited time of seven days, this is to motivate people to meet in real life. This concept on a dating app is very unique as it rejects the ideas of Couldry and Hepp’s Media Manifold (Herman, 2021). Instead of people just pursuing a relationship online and that being viewed as normal, it wants people to create connections in reality and pursue relationships based in the real world and not a heavily altered social media platform. Due to this it challenges the social shape (Herman, 2021) in how technology has influenced dating. On other dating platforms people can swipe, chat, and talk to over a hundred people easily, they can also chat with them when they first match or months down the line. On these other apps, there is also no incentive to meet up with the other person either, unlike Coffee Meets Bagel. In conclusion, all of the other apps encourage this media manifold blurring the lines between reality and onlines, whereas coffee meets bagel rejects it.


Cmb, & Cmb. (2021, May 04). How Does Coffee Meets Bagel Work? Retrieved from https://coffeemeetsbagel.com/blog/original/cmb-updates/coffee-meets-bagel-wants-give-women-full-control-dating-life/

Herman, A. (2021) Social Media and Social Life [PowerPoint Presentation and Lecture].  Retrieved from myLearningSpace 

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