Christian Rudder

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of…

— Christian Rudder

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

— Christian Rudder

“Tonight, some thirty thousand couples will have their first date because of OkCupid. Roughly three thousand of them will end up together…

— Christian Rudder

Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be…

— Christian Rudder

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

— Christian Rudder

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

— Christian Rudder

“If we want to pick the point where a man’s sexual appeal has reached its limit, it’s there: forty.”

— Christian Rudder

“Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters.”

— Christian Rudder

“people can feel the math behind things, especially, thankfully, moms.”

— Christian Rudder

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like…

— Christian Rudder

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply…

— Christian Rudder

“for anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.”

— Christian Rudder

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

— Christian Rudder

You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works…

— Christian Rudder

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

— Christian Rudder

“If there’s one thing I sincerely hope this book might get you to reconsider,” Rudder writes in the introduction, “it’s what you…

— Christian Rudder

“Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate…

— Christian Rudder

“men and women perform a different sexual calculus. As Harper’s put it perfectly: “Women are inclined to regret the sex they had,…

— Christian Rudder

A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are…

— Christian Rudder

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they’re demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and…

— Christian Rudder

Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially…

— Christian Rudder

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

— Christian Rudder

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

— Christian Rudder

We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook 'experimented' with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But…

— Christian Rudder