"First message I woke up to on Tinder this morning was 'Damn girl you thick. Let me hit it,'" said one of my friends. Sadly, this is no stranger to girl talk nowadays. No longer do the catcalls have to remain on the streets, they've even found their ways into our phones.
Oh the romantic words of Tinder boys! They truly know the way into our hearts don't they? I must say the adventures of online dating have taunted me for some time now. I have been on my fair share of Tinder dates, ranging for extremely awkward to some of the best dates I've ever been on. In fact, one of my close friends has been in a relationship for nearly a year with a man she met on Tinder, although they wouldn't admit it to you that's how they met. I think that is a common concept of those who find success in online dating: lying about it. I always imagined that if I were to end up dating someone I met on Tinder, we would impromptu a new story of how we met each time someone decided to ask us.
The crazy world of online dating is a new one for us all the explore. Prior to our generation, dating consisted entirely in person (unless you count the creepy Facebook relationships). Was it a mistake to make dating digital? Or is it for the better? I will say the digital innovations of dating has helped me to meet people I'm sure I would have never met just by luck. Some argue that the love of your life cannot be from the exact same town as you, or in the same place and time for you to meet. For those that believe in fate, I suppose ideally you would simply bump into your "soulmate" on the shuttle to class. For Tinder users, just look at it as increasing their chances at fate. Yet, I must also admit that my strongest connections have been with the people I ran into in person. Swiping on someone's face is quite a lot less romantic. Not to mention Tinder isn't exactly full of marriage-material.
Just the surface level experience of spending hours of your day swiping through people and basing them solely on a couple pictures tends to leave a pit in my stomach. If you haven't experienced it before, I'd say you might just be lucky. Here is a quick synopsis in just a few words: fish pics, military men, snapchat filters, "I guess that's as good as it gets", creepy men who superlike, and the very rare hotties. However, even when you find your rare prince charming in photo, he'll message you with a pathetic "Hey."
