Tinder: a Grindr-type hook-up app for straight people? A superficially fun hot or not type game? A great self-confidence boost after seeing all those hot matches that swiped to the right for little old you? An actual way to meet cool new people or even potentials? An easily accessible and less stigmatising online dating tool than actual online dating? Or all of the above?
Two fun articles on the topic:
1) Eli from Askmen.com beautifully puts it in What It’s Really Like To Date With Hookup Apps: “Forever I’d boasted that I would never do online dating. I wasn’t that desperate, and losers met girls online. Not me. No, no. Tinder is sort of a loophole. It isn’t really “dating,” and the Facebook angle made me feel like I was just repurposing the ubiquitous social media site. On Tinder I could preserve my cooked-up desirability and masculinity while secretly praying that the smokin’ young blonde would like me back.”
