psmv6: Dating

I have suddenly started receiving emails from something called 'match', which so far I have archived unseen.

But this afternoon, curious, I asked Wikipedia who they might be and it seems quite likely that they come from one of the dating apps operated by the people at reference 2. A big business, taking an income of 0.5 billion USD from revenue of 3.5 billion. Why so little? Does it really cost that much to build a few apps and run a server farm? Maybe I have misread the figures offered by Wikipedia.

The income figure at reference 3 is rather different, so maybe I shall have a talk with an accounting correspondent, who should understand this kind of thing. Is the average user really stumping up $200? In the same league as online betting sites?

Also a business that make a lot of noise about how much effort they put into the safety of the users of their apps - so one can only suppose that one needs to be careful if one is using them.

No idea what I might have done to attract their attention, but if the volume picks up, maybe I am going to have to put my geek hat on for a bit and find out how to stop them appearing in my inbox.

PS: the image at the top of the post is one of the love stories featured at reference 2. Josephine and Sidney. Aka Jo and Sid.

According to reference 4, Josephine is a feminised version of Joseph, made popular by the first wife of Napoleon I. While Sidney, originally a French family name derived by contraction from St. Denis, was made popular as a given name in 18th century England by the Whig idolisation of one Algernon Sidney, a distant relative of the Sir Philip Sidney whom we learned about at school for giving his water bottle to a fellow soldier on the field of battle. See reference 5.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group.

Reference 2: https://mtch.com/.

Reference 3: https://s203.q4cdn.com/993464185/files/doc_presentations/2024/12/MG_Investor_Day_2024.pdf.

Reference 4: Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names – Withycombe, E.G – 1963.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Sidney.