lol elite daily
I think I removed several people on facebook who shared mostly stuff from that site, then blocked the site.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah obviously what is being performed is "I have quite a bit of money (or at least know how to produce this impression)".
The way in the Avengers film where Ultron bathes in the cliche of consuming All The Internet and learning about humanity - you could connect a decent AI to a Tinder device in Trafalgar Square and it would hum for a bit and declare it now understood the British class system. Less mountains of skulls, too, in general.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
the skulls are already buried across the imperial diaspora
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
*frequently what is performed
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
i defiantly have started seeing ppl i've swiped left on pop up again
just started noticing it in the last month or two
― gr8080, Sunday, 7 June 2015 06:21 (nine years ago) link
definitely not "defiantly"
― gr8080, Sunday, 7 June 2015 06:22 (nine years ago) link
Right, but since deleting your profile is two taps and importing again from Facebook is like four taps, that's not that surprising, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 7 June 2015 09:14 (nine years ago) link
Slavoj Žižek to thread: http://bigthink.com/videos/online-dating-and-synthetic-sex
― Sharkie, Sunday, 7 June 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Is the Facebook requirement keeping people away from this?
― calstars, Sunday, 7 June 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
In other words, does it make public on Facebook the fact that you've installed it and are seeking out matches?
― calstars, Sunday, 7 June 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Prolly not
― surm, Sunday, 7 June 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
no, and no
it isn't a "Facebook app" or w/e, it just uses the info to log in and grab age/selected photos
― ultimate american sock (mh), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Also connections / shared interests, which are among the data it shows you about profiles. So if'd be a bad idea for someone to ask a friend "hey saw your friend on Tinder, are they cool?" then I'd go with manually creating a profile / pictures.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 June 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
true!
imo that's a strength, not a weakness, but if you find online dating shameful I guess you can go undercover
― ultimate american sock (mh), Monday, 8 June 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
girl i am currently seeing made a fbook account just to get on tinder and then subsequently deleted it
― gr8080, Monday, 8 June 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Right, but that's so cumbersome
― calstars, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Are they funded by Facebook?
― calstars, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
a little curious why one of the most popular and profitable apps can't muster an ipad version.
― ed.b, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
just install the phone version
― ultimate american sock (mh), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
a few days ago i was in bed about to go to sleep but just before decided to message a girl i matched with a few months ago. i think she was actually the first person i matched with after a pretty horrendous breakup so i was a bit reluctant to msg at the time. anyway....ended up getting up out of bed and going out to meet her. had the most amazing night of wandering around the city and talking. we ended up drinking in a square until about 3am like teenagers. i've seen her every day since and it's turned into a bit of a whirlwind romance. tinder is cool?
― tpp, Saturday, 20 June 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
that is a v great story
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
thinking of c&p-ing that into my abt me as what i aspire to
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
that rules! aww.
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Tinder can be very cool! The first response after I recreated my profile got a date arranged after three hours - kissing at the end of the first date, going to the movies and completely ignoring the movies for the second (Could <I>not</I> recommend Will Smith / Margot Robbie vehicle Focus highly enough for this purpose - bright and engaging out of the corner of your eye and you can miss more or less all of it with no ill effects). She's finishing her PhD in September and moving away, I'm out of a serious long term relationship and not looking for another, so Tinder found us each other for fooling around and watching Father Ted.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Vanity Fair weighs in
This article kind of disturbed me.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
seen that roundly criticized already on twitter, but i haven't read it yet.
― goole, Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
couldn't read past that ridiculous "expert" quote tbh
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
yes this article is one of those insufferable NYC-center-of-the-universe table talk pieces
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
Nick, with his lumbersexual beard and hipster clothes, as if plucked from the wardrobe closet of Girls, is, physically speaking, a modern male ideal. That he fulfills none of the requirements identified by evolutionary psychologists as what women supposedly look for in mates—he’s neither rich nor tall; he also lives with his mom—doesn’t seem to have any effect on his ability to get rampantly laid. In his iPhone, he has a list of more than 40 girls he has “had relations with, rated by [one to five] stars…. It empowers them,” he jokes. “It’s a mix of how good they are in bed and how attractive they are.”
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Am trying to have a hard time figuring out how women feel safe on Tinder at all.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 6 August 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
most men aren't Nick
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 7 August 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
It's no less safe than blind dates or meeting someone in a bar - your first experience alone with the person should be a public place.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 7 August 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
thoughts: a) the whole piece is kind of sadb) i need to go to the gym so I can attract these loose women with shirtless pics
― Nhex, Friday, 7 August 2015 06:35 (eight years ago) link
it empowers them, he jokes
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 7 August 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
“It’s rare for a woman of our generation to meet a man who treats her like a priority instead of an option,” wrote Erica Gordon on the Gen Y Web site Elite Daily, in 2014.
"gen y web site" a rather bulging rug, here
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 7 August 2015 07:07 (eight years ago) link
once, a boy would pick a girl in the street
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 7 August 2015 11:16 (eight years ago) link
I am approx 4 paragraphs into this article and these guys they're talking about sound like the biggest assholes. I want to castrate all of them.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 7 August 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
this article is completely made-up right? someone watched wolf of wall street the night before and based their techno-fear article on it.
― 9 days from now a.k.a next weekend. (dog latin), Friday, 7 August 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
More American Psycho than anything else
― calstars, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure that's not how most ppl use "fuckboy"
― adam, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
^ yeah, that was kinda lol. made me second guess my going definition, but urban dictionary backed me up.
― circa1916, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
ive definitely heard this definition of fuckboy taking hold
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Friday, 7 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
lol @ Bananaman B
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 August 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
I just thought it was a synonym for "rentboy".
― how's life, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
my favorite was the explanation of "get it in". imagining vf readers reaching this cryptic phrase in the midpoint of a very long article about casual sex and being baffled.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 7 August 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Read it more often (agreeing with the article) as fuckboi, but you know how it is with kids these days.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 7 August 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
lol did anyone find the "researcher perspectives" quoted to be totally absurd? eg human sexuality professors quoted saying "this is a whole new phase in the evolution of human sexuality"
― marcos, Friday, 7 August 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Twenty years ago I was in college and there were dudes whose life was organized around maximizing number of vaginas entered and there were dudes who were mostly looking for girlfriends and not particularly hustling for sex outside this context. (And I mean obviously some continuum between these.) The article paints a picture of a dating environment really well-adapted for the first class of dudes but the second class doesn't really appear in this article. Is the point that they don't exist anymore, as some of the women in the article claim? Or are they still around, and just kind of doing what they've always done, and not using Tinder, or using Tinder to find girlfriends instead of maximizing sex-count, or...?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 August 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
people sure to love to read about rich young people who seem to fuck more than average
― goole, Friday, 7 August 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
feel like there could be a whole lot of media put together about this!!