Talk to the many Tinder couples – gay and straight – that have gotten married after meeting on Tinder.
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The smartphone software lets users swipe through a stream of images of single people located around them – a left swipe blocks the user, while a right one shows interest. Tinder users are on Tinder to meet people for all kinds of reasons.
After four months of dating, I find myself in a strong, committed relationship with a woman I’m insane about. 8 billion of them to date, in fact.
Tinder then ran through anecdotes of how the app, which allows users to easily “pass” on or “like” another human being, was changing the world for the better.
The ladies seem resigned to the extinction of dating behavior. “Tinder and OK C, I thought, were a cool way to meet new women”.
“Or you could have talked about how everyone on Tinder is on an equal playing field”. As shallow as it sounds, people judge you based on your profile pics, your bio and your first message.
“Don’t start off with a Hi or a Hey”. According to Evan Bonstetter, spokesperson for Tinder, a distinct feature of the Indian market vis-a-vis the West is the fact that “those who match in India are very conversational”.
The article makes the argument that apps like Tinder are “ruining” the concept of traditional dating. Tinder didn’t magically turn us into ravenous, sex-crazed people attacking each other at first glance. Check them all out here. “Indian girls want to be friends with you, they simply don’t get it that a dating app is not Facebook”. The men in the article possess “a perceived surplus of women”, so they only “pursue a short-term mating strategy”.
Users can’t message each other unless BOTH people are interested in one another.
Instead, your article took an incredibly biased view, which is disappointing.
“Indian men are judgmental and ask too many personal questions too soon”, counters Yasmin Mirza*, a 26-year-old architect. “There’s no relationships”, says Amanda, the tall elegant one. We surveyed 265,000 of our users.
“Tinder proved that the most important quality in another person is not their personality, but their proximity”, said Buress, while presenting the company with the “breakout of the year” award.
The normally fairly relaxed Twitter account – which largely tweets memes stolen from the internet – began a hours-long blast of updates that began with factual corrections and ended with an impassioned defence of Tinder’s contribution to dating culture. Mendes is just as exhausted and is planning to take time off these apps.
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That’s what happened for me when I met my girlfriend Lauren. Hope floats on a virtual platform. “And you never know if you’ll hit it off with someone”.
