The alternative that often happens is meeting someone through friends, which can work, but it’s limiting yourself to single people your closest friends and family happen to know.
While it’s true that users of the popular dating app have made more than 10 billion matches since it launched in 2012, Tinder has also been blamed for the demise of romance and the rise of a commitment-phobic generation, leading one young woman to complain to contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales about a “dating apocalypse.” Tinder’s twenty-something founders have perhaps exacerbated this narrative by repeatedly stepping in it themselves, including settling a sexual-harassment lawsuit that played out in the press.
Now a newly launched Web site may provide Tinder with its latest existential crisis.
But in high school, he said he was always the guy people would share their secrets with, and he often heard about his classmates’s infidelities.
“It struck me that there were so many people not knowing what was going on with the person they care most about. While he said the service helps those in a relationship figure out if their partner is “up to no good” on Tinder, his sights are set far beyond the dating app.