Swiping people left and right: the Tinder/hook-up culture discussion

https://twitter.com/samknight1/status/631280024679776256

kinda siding with Tinder there tbh

lol, what's with the insane hyper-defensiveness? Like one chin-strokey article about tinder is any kind of threat to the business.

Feel like Tinder have a fair case with a smug, poorly reported piece

This was very good: http://thehairpin.com/2015/08/breaking-dating-men-still-sucks-for-women/

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/08/tinder_and_the_moral_panic_over_women_using_technology_to_meet_men_and_have.single.html

Anyone tried Bumble? Met someone from another city thanks to it and the whole process has seemed both more serious and more generous. The idea that women have to commit first is a nice reversal of situations that leads to more trust from the get go. It's more my wheelhouse.

no one is on it here

lmao

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bumble.android

http://time.com/3851583/bumble-whitney-wolfe/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-marketing/rethinking-the-tinder-generation/article26003958/

someone please tell me this isn't really a 'trend'

every time i type "tinder" i mistakenly type "hinder" at first

can we have a moritorium on articles abt how millenials are like totally different than any previous generation

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-snake-peop/jhkibealmjkbkafogihpeidfcgnigmlf?hl=en-US

still really useful

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94609711/Millennial%20Swipe%20Sim%202015_F/index.html
trenchant video game commentary

I would love to try out Bumble but I'm an Android user so I'm SOL.

haha that's awesome

xp

lol trenchant

http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/tinder-super-like/

and carly rae still can't go gold

http://38.media.tumblr.com/46d06ef5825391b15d30a3186e029ff7/tumblr_n5me0pJ6xH1qlzc82o1_r2_500.gif

wow

yeah, aces

i'd have swiped right on her

http://www.fastcompany.com/3054871/whats-your-tinder-score-inside-the-apps-internal-ranking-system

I'm so boring on tinder. In general too, but mostly on tinder. Have no idea how to get the conversation rolling/am lazy and sort of want my matches to do this for me

In a current conversation a woman mentioned she liked this park. I mentioned it was close to my brother's place and so I will try to check it out one day. She said I should do that. Now I am stumped.

Fsce to face conversation is easier

i don't know a whole lot about tinder but isn't the spirit of thing that you tell her it looks like a nice park and ask if she wants to meet at the park for hooking up?

ha treesh your park conversation sounds so much like every conversation i've ever had on tinder and i used to be pretty good at being charming and flirty in internet venues (non-ilx).

lol late great otm

tell her to meet you at the park then arrive and announce THE TREESHIP HAS LANDED!

http://i.imgur.com/4EzPF0r.jpg

I'd like to add that I hope i'm not making you feel uncomfortable or badly in any way by posting these fliers

http://i.imgur.com/TRSein4.jpg

XD

the girl in that shot is some vermeer-level shit

I think this Polish pilot I'm talking to might be a bot. 50/50. Her backstory is very specific but she communicates in a botlike way.

Love the bots btw.

polish pilot sounds bottish already, but I guess there are actual pilots in poland so who knows

trying so hard not to make the jokes here

I think tinder bots are fascinating especially when they are plausible and uncanny. They also steal people's photos and names so there are bot versions of some of real people floating around.

ime it's really easy to spot the bots

I'm one of them!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/your-romantic-first-dates-restaurants-hate-them/2016/06/07/bf45adfc-1df5-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?postshare=5121465329289247&tid=ss_fb

first date at a restaurant are a no go

drinks/coffee/tea or gtfo

my most frequent spot is a "gastropub," which crosses lines as surely as some of the dudes I meet

lol

this metered drinking thing sounds like the me of today, as opposed to the "hell yeah let's have some drinks and see where this goes" me of yesteryear

I usually had the presence of mind to make out around the corner from the establishment though, not inside

Still do that. Uber helps.

If I wasn't so damned straight I'd be swooning

Anyone can go crooked.