If you are a college student, you have heard of the app called Tinder. It's this "dating" app to help someone finally find the one. In reality, it's just used for corny pick up lines and hook ups.
I have had Tinder but recently deleted it because you get no real connection with someone you meet on an app. Even attempting to download any dating app shows how scared you are to be alone. Trust me, I know the feeling.
The app is very shallow in itself. You have a choice to either swipe left, swipe right or super like to potential candidates. You literally have people at the tip of your fingers, flicking them away or tossing them into the bucket of possibilities. If you happen to pass their 1 out of 10 scale then you're set. If not, you are out of luck.
You choose to match with someone solely based on their looks.
Their bio never says much- mostly what school, sorority/frat they are associated with and some corny line. You get no true connection and really have no clue what this person is like or if they are even real in the first place.
When you find a 'match,' it's a constant competition, clashing with an overwhelming amount of trust issues. While they are messaging you, they are also messaging maybe 10 other people, picking each one off slowly till there is only one standing. For all you know, they could already be in a relationship.
I wouldn't really call Tinder a dating app as much as it is a sex line.
The intentions of more than half the people on this app are just looking to fool around. Either they are at a party, drunk or even just lonely. All it takes is one little message and they think they can get in your pants.
Tinder has, unfortunately, skewed both women's and men's perception of the modern day sweetheart. Admittedly, there are surely a few good people on their who swipe with their heart and not for sex. But guess where else you can find these good people? In the real world, when they are right in front of you- you know the real them not the fake side hiding behind an app.
Meeting the old fashioned way has slowly died out. Nowadays it's meeting after already being connected from Tinder. Some think it's easier that way, to let them know who you are through the app then meet up. What's so wrong with meeting in person in the first place and know who you are that way? Why hide behind an app?
Do something for a change; delete the app and take your chances offline.
Meet someone in the real world. I promise you, the connection will be twice as better and you won't have to worry about some corny pickup line being thrown at you. There are so many things in real life that can play in your favor that you will never get on Tinder.
