Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Every day, dozens of women in this nearly ,member group advertise themselves to each other as potential roommates.
Alongside bios detailing their jobs, hobbies, budgets, and preferred neighborhoods, they include photos of themselves at restaurants, out with friends, on hikes, attending music festivals, hoisting up marathon medals, and the like. In an age of statistically formulated questionnaires and algorithmic matchmaking , this Facebook group feels almost archaic.
Here, a post is the only way to interest your type. So she crafted her own. And it worked. She now lives with them on a month-to-month basis. Payton Steffensen, who moved to New York from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, used the post format to engineer her image in a different way. Her musical-theater career involves self-taping at home — often belting at full volume — and sometimes taking six-month jobs on cruises. That says: This is legit.
As with online dating, appearing authentic and proactive, but not desperate, requires careful curation. Dayna, a year-old from Port Washington, Long Island, sent a draft of her post to several friends before publishing it. I consider myself to be on the farther end of the spectrum of non-boring.
You want to be quirky but not too quirky. She referenced my Instagram caption, which means she stalked me. It was a lot. For free. Frank came up with the idea of using Facebook to connect renters with rentals — he could post for free, use the Live feature when touring apartments by himself, and leave the videos up as virtual tours.
