We are squashed close to people we don't know nor want to know. I get hair in my face, bags pushed into my hip and boobs and sometimes I get to peek into someones life.
There are several commuters that spend the time checking Facebook, playing Candy Crush( I seem to have gone off that game.....), replying to texts, reading the news and checking their Tinder account....all on their mobile phones.
This morning I got my first glimpse of what and how a Tinder account looks like. The sweet young thing next to me first had her daily dose of facebook then she switched to Tinder and I had a good look at how the app works.
She went through several pictures of men and only stopped at the Japanese or Korean looking ones and then went through their profiles. but it looked ruthless , a quick look, swipe and he was gone.....
(I asked Google, and it seems there is a left swipe and a right swipe..... one to keep the person and the other to move on)
(I asked Google, and it seems there is a left swipe and a right swipe..... one to keep the person and the other to move on)
like everything the Millennials do, its quick and instant. The generation of digitally savvy, selfie loving and perhaps narcissistic young people probably don't have the time to date like we used to.
It started with all the dating websites and has now moved on to dating Apps, as their mobile phones are no longer just a phone but part of their daily lives, so why not date with an app......
I am curious how it works but not curious enough to join something like this as am still very much confused about what I want, and son no 2 is on it as well......and frankly I would feel rather stupid downloading and creating a profile on a dating app at my age...
I used to find the websites daunting, with so many choices, people stopped wanting to spend time with one person as there seemed to be so many fish in the sea....now on Tinder I wonder how someone makes a choice and actually commits to one person...
The world is moving so fast and I worry about my son out there in the Tinder world of dating. As a parent you want your child to find someone to spend his/her life with. Someone to grow old with. How on earth do you find someone on a phone app where there is only 1 second before that person swipes to the next profile?
Its a scary world out there and I wonder if Tinder just made it scarier?
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