The Tinder app. What are your thoughts? (married, men, Chinese)
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What do you mean text on the screen? There's text where the photo should be? What does it say?
The photo will have text watermarked (or whatever) over it with a phone number, email address, website, etc. After the first week or so, I stopped getting those though.
I have never used any type of dating service of any kind.
I don't know anyone who has, but based on some of the forums and threads you see here, it's a half and half thing. Some people find success in it, others don't.
Like most things in the dating world, if you're attractive looking, you'll do fine.
I don't use it, and I can't use it since I don't use a phone that can use apps. It would be a huge waste of time for me, so there's no point in me even getting it if I could.
I could never get into a dating app like that when I was in the dating since. Since I care about the profile, and how the person communicates, it matters that the "profile" contain more than photos and a few sentences followed by stats/details.
Can I find out if said person is for marriage equality or is a pro-gun extremist on there? Nope. Can I see how well that person writes, you know, evidence they passed elementary school and their spelling and grammar isn't shot to hell? Negative. Is there a way to assess commonalities in worldview? Definitely not.
And no, these aren't things I want to find out eventually on date four or five. Those are important need to know now things, as in, from the get-go.
You can find out all that stuff by talking/texting them before agreeing to meet them. The app allows you to communicate with your matches.
You can talk to them through the app. You don't need to exchange numbers.
Tinder is just not set up, not intended for, those who are interested in true companionship or are looking for compatibility with the hopes of it leading to a relationship.
Asking a bunch of questions to assess deal-breakers is just tedious on a site like that. If one has extensive criteria or a weeding out process, Tinder just isn't the place to look for high quality matches.
One of my criteria was that a match have great written communication skills, and this was often demonstrated in their profile. This can be better assessed when one is able to see a larger body of writing versus short back and forth messages. Also, sure, one can ask important questions in their messages, but it often comes across inorganic and forced, much like a job application.
I can see the appeal for casual and serial daters, and generally the younger crowd, but for more "serious daters," it would prove to be more of a hassle and time waster.
Pictures are cool, but far more telling is the profile, for me at least.
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