Tinder is rolling out a new service in their app exclusively for College and Uni students

[peanuts104]

6 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I have a hard time believing a strong and lasting relationship can consistently sprout out of people who decided to date through an app before knowing each other.

After about a year of trying on both tinder and OkCupid, I'm beginning to agree with this.

[DildorTheDecent]

5 hours ago, Julian5 said:

When are they gonna roll out an option for elementary school dating?

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[Shally]

17 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I strongly doubt that...

It will certainly make it harder to do through tinder.

[Sauron]

10 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

A huge part of that is reduced social pressure to stay in a bad marriage.

Probably, but I think "bad marriages" are often the consequence of a superficial approach to the relationship. I'm not saying it's a worse problem than it was before, I just think it's a problem. Marriage is basically a promise to see life through together, if all of a sudden "the passion runs out" then that promise wasn't taken very seriously in my opinion... of course I'm not referring to situations of abuse and violence.

[Biggerboot]

Opinions on Tinder aside (let's face it, most of us aren't the demographic that uses it), I'm sure people who are already in college and using tinder will appreciate this.

[Froody129]

I thought uni is when you're most likely to be meeting people? Like just talk to people  

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Froody129 said:

Like just talk to people

Then you'll trigger someone and get called a racist, fascist rapist.

[peanuts104]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

Then you'll trigger someone and get called a racist, fascist rapist.

Triggered.  I need a safe space.

[TacoSenpai]

7 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Then you'll trigger someone and get called a racist, fascist rapist.

I'm not going to lie I initially read that as fapist...what the hells wrong with me?

[3 Lions]

It sounds similar to this...

 

[Dionyz]

5 hours ago, Nicholatian said:

Haha, how pathetic of them. As if your prospects weren't awful enough as it is, Tinder's here to help add more complications to your already overwhelming social life that you're probably too young to understand and have no experience to help cope with!

 

I don't see how this would help anyone in college to be happy or successful considering it's long-known to be the most ruthlessly impersonal route of connecting with people, and because it's useless without decent IRL social skills. But I can see how the colleges wouldn't pretend to care, since the money's more important for them anyway and in reality their days are numbered on the gravy train.

 

All in all it's just another thing setting young folks up for failure while telling them it's how you get success. I wonder what the colleges will 1-up themselves with next...

There are a lot of Bots on Tinder. A ton of fake profiles. For example looking in California, but getting images of vintage towns in a Siberia coat on. 

 

This is a way to combat this since bots cannot obtain .edu emails. Also campuses are not getting paid for tinder using their email. Actually they can block them, so this feature might be unsuccessful. 

 

The only way to success is to fail many times. You develop social skills the more you talk to people.

[linustouchtips]

7 hours ago, Julian5 said:

When are they gonna roll out an option for elementary school dating?

FBI OPEN UP!!

[Dionyz]

2 hours ago, Sauron said:

Probably, but I think "bad marriages" are often the consequence of a superficial approach to the relationship. I'm not saying it's a worse problem than it was before, I just think it's a problem. Marriage is basically a promise to see life through together, if all of a sudden "the passion runs out" then that promise wasn't taken very seriously in my opinion... of course I'm not referring to situations of abuse and violence.

It's not just about the passion. Actually the best way to get to know a person fast is to argue (or debate), but no one takes this route in relationship and the honeymoon phase kicks in for a year or two. After that phase is when they figure out the arguments, and decide they cannot live with that person anymore. 

 

Most people do not factor this important element in. They get fed up with this type of nagging / stress and divorces comes into place... 

[Sauron]

26 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

It's not just about the passion. Actually the best way to get to know a person fast is to argue (or debate), but no one takes this route in relationship and the honeymoon phase kicks in for a year or two. After that phase is when they figure out the arguments, and decide they cannot live with that person anymore. 

 

Most people do not factor this important element in. They get fed up with this type of nagging / stress and divorces comes into place... 

That too, I was just generalizing to make my point. The decision is often made hastily and without realizing what it really means to share a life with someone else.

[TacoSenpai]

33 minutes ago, Dionyz said:

It's not just about the passion. Actually the best way to get to know a person fast is to argue (or debate), but no one takes this route in relationship and the honeymoon phase kicks in for a year or two. After that phase is when they figure out the arguments, and decide they cannot live with that person anymore. 

 

Most people do not factor this important element in. They get fed up with this type of nagging / stress and divorces comes into place... 

In other words how will you act with each other when the chips are down, times are tough, and not every thing is going so rosy...

[mr moose]

14 hours ago, Sauron said:

That too, I was just generalizing to make my point. The decision is often made hastily and without realizing what it really means to share a life with someone else.

 

14 hours ago, LordOTaco said:

In other words how will you act with each other when the chips are down, times are tough, and not every thing is going so rosy...

As some one who has been around the block a few times (2 marriages and no divorcees myself),  I am of the opinion most marriages don't work out because the people in them fail to understand commitment and serenity, that is,  Knowing you can't change your partner unless your happy for them to stay the way they are. 

 

 

 

On topic, I can just see this app being labeled a debauchees misogynistic male chauvinist cultural tool by the less educated of the social lobbyist persuasion.  We already have so many problems in our universities with equality rights being used to discriminate against people,  rape culture being blamed for X, Y and Z.  The last thing we need is a hook app for them to completely misrepresent so that anyone who uses it is automatically labeled a sexual assailant.

[patrick3027]

On 22/08/2018 at 1:08 PM, Trixanity said:

Wait what? How can pedophiles prey on college students?

I would think pedophiles have a completely different demographic.

A lot of 16 year old girls pretend to be 18 and can be found on Tinder.

 

All in all this Tinder U idea seems good.

[Trixanity]

2 minutes ago, patrick3027 said:

A lot of 16 year old girls pretend to be 18 and can be found on Tinder.

 

All in all this Tinder U idea seems good.

So you're saying pedophiles use a service for adults in the hopes that someone lied about their age and look adult enough to pass as 18 and pedophiles target this demographic of adult-looking 16 year olds? Sounds convoluted.

[patrick3027]

6 hours ago, Trixanity said:

So you're saying pedophiles use a service for adults in the hopes that someone lied about their age and look adult enough to pass as 18 and pedophiles target this demographic of adult-looking 16 year olds? Sounds convoluted.

I was just pointing out that requiring an .edu email address is a good way to prevent underage kids of joining the app.

[Guest]

On 23/08/2018 at 3:03 AM, peanuts104 said:

Isn't dealing with perverts part of online dating?  I'm a guy and even I have to deal with unwanted and unsolicited stuff.

 

I guess I fail to see the point of this app, especially since it's not university specific.  If it had a way to filter by university, then it'd make more sense to me.

oof looks like someones not getting many matches

[Trixanity]

1 hour ago, patrick3027 said:

I was just pointing out that requiring an .edu email address is a good way to prevent underage kids of joining the app.

Of course. I'm just messing around.

[Mooshi]

I don't really see a prob with this tbh.

 

Tinder is pulling a reverse Facebook which is nice. Use of edu addresses filters out people posing and keeps the focus on trying to find someone at your University.

 

 

[Ryujin2003]

In other news, research studies show drastic increase in STD transmission and Pregnancies at the local Universities. More on this at 11. Back to you Martha....

[DrMacintosh]

On 8/22/2018 at 2:21 AM, AluminiumTech said:

I realize that modern america (amongst other countries) is highly addicted to sex and dating but this is just too far......

America is actually ones of the few places where being vocal and open about sex is around upon....

[Kamina]

HIV is big problem in my area.

 

Did you know we have flesh eating STDs now? Thanks to the pill...

 

Hookup culture perpetuates this kind of behavior.