Swipe Your Way Out of Singleness

It seems we have come to a point in humanity's history where a majority of people are starting to prefer meeting potential romantic partners via various CMC methods rather than in real life. With the rise of new dating and even hook up apps (such as Tinder or Farmers Only), it seems people are craving the digital side of dating more than the real life side now a days. And as the beloved (or dreaded in some of our opinions) holiday known as Valentine's Day approached even more people will turn to these various methods of trying to not be single.  By why do others prefer this type of meeting significant others through apps such as Tinder? The article i read for this week,  With Apps Like Tinder, You Can Swipe Your Way Out of Singleness, it makes the argument that it is partially due to convenience For example, Penn State is a huge campus, with tens of thousands of potential people to date. But wait, with so many how can one meet and know all of them. Chances are your future husband or wife could live in the building right next to you, but you never meet her because you don't ever run in similar circles. However, with things such as tinder, one can view others in their area that they didn't know existed and start relationships with them through online dating. Online dating also offers the ability for those who are too busy in their everyday lives to meet potential dates while still keeping up their busy schedule. For example, my buddy Kalin from back homes fraks for a living in Ohio. However, he works long hours, is constantly traveling, and has very little time to meet girls. However thanks to dating apps, he now has a girlfriend that he met online. Hence, it is probably why 1.2 billion profiles are swiped through on tinder each day.  But Tinder and other online dating apps also offer humans another plus: you can construct your own identity.  On these areas you create your own profile, what pictures you share, what you look like and what info you let other know about you. The article also goes into depth about how by being able to choose what you share you can potentially attract others with similar interests to you, such as being outdoorsy. In fact here are four tips on how to help up yourself get more matches or messages directly from my article:

1. Pictures of animals with you are a definite yes! The cuter of more dangerous the more attractive you are.

2. Pictures with musical instruments or drawings show off your artistic side (you don't even have to play or do them!)

3. Mirror selfies or shirtless/ bikini pics are a no!

4.  Post a pic of you hiking or doing something outdoorsy to attract some nice outdoorsy people.

Hence, as you can see you don't even have to do these things in real life to do them in "tinder you." The article does have a bias that tinder is a great way to meet others, displaying a Hype theory that we learned in class, but has great points to assert the claims it makes. And with Valentine's Day rolling around, if you are single take these tips to help "Swipe your way out of singleness!"

Or use the app BarkBuddy to do the tinder thing with puppies. That's right, you yes you can have all the fun and amenities of tinder without the people or lies. Just pictures of cute puppies for sale. The choices is yours. Swipe carefully my friends!