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I don't know, OP, that seems like a cool idea to me. Sure, it will in all likelihood fail, as most gimmicky tech startups do after failing to generate a profit but I think it's a fun idea. I know a lot of women who have used Tinder to one extent or another and while none of them have had a particularly horrible experience with it (it's pretty easy to ignore and delete people who send you offensive or gross messages), some have been put off by the ratio of crap to ballzaness. It can be annoying to be inundated with poorly written, overly sexualized messages from guys who clearly didn't read your little bio or even look at your photos beyond the first one, so setting it up with the basis of "girls take the initiative" could be an inventive and fun way to cut down on that... The time limit is a great idea too.
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>it's all just shallow surface readings of pictures and captions and that's supposed to tell you whether you'd work in a long-term relationship?
I don't think anyone ever said Tinder was about long-term relationships. It's not not about long-term relationships. I mean, it definitely could be, but no one with an ounce of sense is going to pretend you can tell someone is long term relationship material based on the snippets of info you see on tinder.
I had a great time using Tinder because it functions about as close to real life meeting/light social interaction as any internet-dating site/app could. Dating sites with in-depth profiles are by their very nature contrived. You have to put a lot more conscious effort and thought into writing your profile and I think by it's very nature that makes it less honest because it makes the person making the profile hyper-aware of their image, of what they are trying to convey.
In real life, you see someone at a party, in a class, at work, at a bar, in a coffee shop, at a potluck at a friend's house and you think that person is cute, you overhear a bit of their conversation with someone else, you chit-chat with them a bit and get a superficial sense of them which might cause you to develop a bit of a crush, want to know more about them, want to spend more time with them, want to ask them out on a date or hit on them or kiss them or whatever. Tinder is the same: you see what they look like and maybe you see a little (usually non-sequitur) blurb they've written and based on that you engage in a shallow, small-talkish chat. If it goes OK, you make plans to meet, and things go from there.
Yes, there is some contrivance in which pictures you choose, what you want them to convey about you, etc. but to me that is no different from, you know, picking your clothes to convey a certain image or doing your makeup or hairstyle a certain way or working out or whatever. It's much less contrived than any dating site I've seen and lead to some very natural interactions.
The point of Tinder is that it is a little shallow but not in a bad way. It's the same as seeing someone across a room, being taken by their looks or their style or their mannerisms or some other little thing you notice, and going over to make chit-chat. Where it goes from there depends on the people involved.
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