Abstract
In this paper, to show the distinctions of gender-specific choice as well as the facets impacting potential romantic partner option in internet dating, we review the users’ behavioral data of the large online dating service in China. We realize that for females, community measures of appeal and task associated with the guys they contact are somewhat favorably related to their texting habits, while for males just the community measures of interest in the ladies they contact are dramatically definitely related to their texting habits. Next, whenever females deliver communications to guys, they focus on not just whether men’s attributes satisfy unique demands for mate choice, but additionally whether their particular attributes meet men’s demands, while whenever males send communications to ladies, they pay just focus on whether women’s attributes satisfy their requirements that are own. Thirdly, compared to guys, ladies connect great value into the socio-economic status of prospective lovers and their particular socio-economic status will influence their passion for connection with possible mates. Further, we make use of the ensemble learning classification techniques to rank the significance of factors predicting messaging behaviors, and discover that the centrality indices of users would be the most significant factors. Finally, by correlation analysis we discover that women and men show various strategic behaviors when messages that are sending. (more…)