Tag: Jennie Young
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Bumble fumble? App backtracks statement on showing users people they’ve blocked | NBC 26
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This article was written by Pari Apostolakos, NBC 26 reporter GREEN BAY (NBC26) — Bumble’s initial response to a user’s question about whether they recycle blocked profiles on user feeds garnered viral online attention. But, the app now says it was all a misunderstanding. Meet Jennie Young, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green…
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Is Bumble Trying to Match You With People You’ve Already Blocked?
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After Whitney Wolfe Herd, a vice president of Tinder, left the company in 2014, she founded Bumble as a women-focused alternative to the popular dating app. With an interface that required its female users to send the first message to their matches — in theory cutting down on spammy or inappropriate overtures from men — it was a…
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Block to burn: Local professor burns up dating app hopes with unique strategy
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GREEN BAY (NBC26 — A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is helping thousands of women find their needle in a haystack with her online dating strategy. Meet Jennie Young, the professor and unlikely dating app guru behind the Burned Haystack Dating Method Learn what “Blocking to burn,” means and why Young says it…