“I can say that some less attractive couples have met each other on Tinder, so I do think it works for all people,” she said.
Superficial or not, of all the apps or dating sites, it seems to imitate real life the most, where initial judgments are based on whether you are physically attracted to someone.
In the same way you would strike up a conversation with that person at, say, a bar, Tinder makes it incredibly easy to do the same thing through messaging. To contrast, other dating sites like Chemistry.com and eHarmony, both fee-based, require you to fill out lengthy questionnaires that take upwards of an hour to complete before you can even begin to contact potential matches.
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“I’ve been on other dating sites and it’s torture to get a conversation going,” Matt Miller, 30, said. “Tinder results in something.”
Chris Pezza, 31, who’s been on Tinder since it was launched in 2012, said that he tried Match.com recently and could not stand the arduous process involved.
“It was way too much work to even start a conversation,” he said. “It was like a resume and job interview.”
Despite it’s rave reviews for its ease of use, there will always be those who can’t see past its superficiality. One user, who wished to remain anonymous, compared Tinder to “Hot or Not,” the attractiveness rating app. She said she was propositioned often, went on a few dates that ended terribly, and then ditched Tinder. Not long after she met her current long-term boyfriend on Match.com.
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