Online dating has become the most common way for people to meet each other these days. There are countless dating websites and apps, but Tinder is by far the most popular.
The simplicity of swiping left or right on pictures of potential partners is easy to understand and even easier to use. You can easily spend hours browsing through what seems like thousands of singles in your area and sorting them on geographical location, age and appearance preferences. It is very simple to set up a Tinder account and unlike most websites, there are few barriers to using it which means that if you swipe right on someone, they are immediately visible to you.
The app itself hardly restricts what information you can give away about yourself so anyone who wants to know more about their potential partners will usually begin with the basic profile information. This is where many people find themselves vulnerable as saying too much or too little can lead to misunderstandings or missed opportunities later on down the line. However, users have started realising that by being selective about what they write in their profiles, it can be used as an advantage to weed out the people that they definitely do not want to speak with.
The internet has given rise to a new generation of catfishers and Tinder is no exception. You can now swipe right on someone who exists only as pixels and what you see may not be what you get when you finally meet them in person. A woman named Jenny decided to test her luck by finding out whether the attractive man she had been speaking to for over a week was real or not. At first, he seemed like any other Tinder user: good looking, polite and quick to respond but after a few days of exchanging messages, his responses became sporadic and eventually stopped altogether. Surprisingly, it didn't deter her from swiping right again on everyone she came across.