That's ... one way to get a date
While swiping on the dating app Bumble, Laurann O’Neill, 26, found someone who caught her eye — for all the wrong reasons. He was 23, attractive and obnoxious. Evan referred to himself as an entrepreneur. His dating profile featured a photo of himself popping a bottle of champagne on a boat. His perfect first date was “Jumping on a private jet with no destination.” Another photo showed him and a friend casually reclining on a private jet.
On this particular evening, it felt like her dating life was imitating the rich kids on reality TV. Was this guy for real? She immediately took a screen shot of his photos and sent them to her friends in a “can you believe this guy?” text. She was amused by how ostentatious he was and — merely out of curiosity, she says — swiped right to match with him. That may have been the final insult: He didn’t swipe right back.
Millennials and everyone else have honed their skills on Facebook and Instagram FB, -0.26% where people craft the perfect, if not entirely accurate, narrative of their life. “Dating apps have become an extension of social media,” says Dan Ilani founder of Sweatt, a fitness-based dating app, in terms of people going to great lengths to portray themselves in a flattering light. It’s the Instagramization of dating — showing your “filtered” self instead of your real self.
Of course it can work, at least for a time. At first, she was taken aback by his famous connections and she had never met any legendary Hollywood moguls or hung out with movie stars and, well, wouldn’t that be nice? But she soon realized he was being less than truthful about his wealth. Her first clue: She was paying for most of their dates. “I was pretty shocked when I saw a food-stamps card in his wallet,” Breheim says. “Not only was he broke but he was a liar.
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