article: Instant Gratification – How Tinder Almost Ruined Dating for Millennials

[MatureDJ]

Instant Gratification – How Tinder Almost Ruined Dating for Millennials

Have you ever asked your parents – or better yet, your grandparents, how they met? Chances are it did NOT go something like this. ‘Well, I saw a photo of your Pops on a dating app, and I thought he…

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[Georgepithyou]

Almost? It already did destroy modern dating well beyond repair

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Ah yes...sounds about right. All Tinder did was give people more options and choices to make. So because Millennials decided to make poor choices for themselves, they blame Tinder.

No, Tinder didn't ruin anything. They ruined it for themselves. They had choices to make and they made poor ones. But of course, what should we expect, nothing is ever their fault and it's always someone else or something else to blame for their faults or failures.

 

[SW15]

It's difficult to say that Tinder ruined dating for Millennials. When the oldest Millennials (1982-1986) started dating between ~1998-2004 they were already walking into a difficult mating environment. Younger Millennials started dating as the smartphone and social media were getting big, dating websites became de-stigmatized, and later swipe apps came around.

The foundation for the mating environment getting worse was laid during the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and second wave feminism of the 1960s and 1970s. Everything else stems from movements of those eras.

It is fair to say that Tinder, other swipe apps, and social media made things worse.

 

[Dust 2 Dust]

Not just Tinder, but social media in general. I could write a doctoral thesis on the negative effects of social media on society which is why I dont use the crap.

 

[Robert28]

It’s not just millennials. Tons of old divorced women toting kids around that are on online dating looking for the “insta tingles” on first dates.

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

These companies will slowly find ways to exploit our dopamine systems, that will be the major problem, right now people have a choice but as tech develops, they will grow in their ability to manipulate our choices, needs regulation.