What are the different dating app personality types?

Open enough dating apps and the same handful of patterns keep showing up — not because people are unoriginal, but because a dating app is a specific kind of pressure, and most people default to one particular way of handling it. Some over-text and under-meet. Some swipe like it’s a sport. Some collect matches like a museum exhibit they never plan to open to the public. The pattern usually isn't about the app itself — it's a preview of how someone handles the actual uncertainty of getting to know somebody. The person who perfects their bio for three hours but won’t message first is managing the same fear as the person who ghosts after one good date: the fear of being known and found wanting, just showing up on a different screen. Recognizing your own pattern is more useful than recognizing everyone else's, since it's the one you can actually do something about.