Tinder: Arguably the most fraudulent and creepy dating application to come out for the IPhone since Snapchat, right? Wrong.
In the month of January, Tinder’s client base saw a 750 percent jump with 60 percent of their users logging in everyday and created a little more than 15 million matches around the nation. Facts are for frogs so what’s the truth about this little app?
Being able to choose “Yes” or “No” when presented with a picture of someone is actually hilarious. Let’s just pretend people don’t have personalities, backgrounds, or any quirks about them for a minute and what do you have? A floppy colored “human” walking around with some fur on its body to keep it warm during the winters.
As I’m sitting here making fun of this app, I’ll admit, I’ve fallen victim to its trap. I’ve sat there in my room for 15 minutes hitting yes on every ogre that pops up on my screen “within 10 miles” on the slight chance that maybe, just maybe, I’ll be the first and only person I know that has ever received confirmation from anyone on Tinder.
All those statistics are great and I’m honestly really happy for all 15 million of those people, but let’s be real, if you are taking this app seriously, now is probably a good time to go get a haircut, go get your nails done, and make your way over to Southwest.
I get that mobile dating is the “new thing” but if that’s really the future of meeting people in this world, I’m moving to Chile to become a Black Jack dealer and engage in heavy polygamy with some extravagant Chilean women.
I want the world where coffee dates were non-committal, where going out to dinner wasn’t a question you had to preface with 30 of your friends to see if it was too “forward,” and texting wasn’t 70 percent of your communication with the opposite sex. Is that really all that much to ask? Is it really a problem to want to have a casual conversation with someone with no underlying intentions behind it? Tinder is one of the many proponents in today’s word that says, “No, we can make it even easier than that.” But the problem is, not everyone wants life to be so black and white. Personally, I enjoy many colors and they all help make my life as awesome as it is today.
So here’s my mission for you: Leave your IPhone at home for a day and talk to the person next to you on the RTS bus; make a friend, meet your future husband, who the heck knows, just please, whatever you do, don’t just look at them and try and swipe left on their face for an immediate, “NO.”
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