Many people have a negative impression of Tinder as a sexually-fueled promiscuous train wreck of a thing filled with unsolicited genital photos and creeps.
OkCupid bears a reputation of stalker stories and horrible first dates. Although some of the more extreme stories are often true, there is value in being able to use websites that enable connections one would have ordinarily missed entirely. According to Pew Research Center, a study conducted in found that 11 percent of all American adults and nearly 40 percent of single adults have used some kind of dating application. Supposedly five percent of to year-olds and 11 percent of to year-olds have used dating apps.
While those numbers may be modest, people are getting more used to the idea of logging into Internet matchmakers. I started using OkCupid nearly three years ago and have been active on and off over the course of my time here at Seattle University. I recently downloaded Tinder and tried it out, too. Although this all sounds excellent on paper, there are always hitches. Humans will be humans.
One of the first people I encountered on Tinder was a guy named David who had a single picture on his profile: a bank statement that had nearly a quarter of a million dollars listed. His blurb? Foster said that she gets a variety of messages centered around her race.
Foster met her boyfriend of eight months through Tinder unexpectedly. Although she was not actively looking for a boyfriend, she fell into a relationship. Emma Izquierdo, a communications major graduating in the spring, also met her long-distance boyfriend through Tinder.
