Tinder A Hookup App
Tinder is not just any hookup app, it is one of the top apps for hooking up online. You should always know there are girls on Tinder who are interested in hookups and casual sex and you can easily get it whenever from them. Tinder is a notorious dating app. Heard, hear, it’s only for casual hookups. You could get a real serious relationship out of a dating app. Hey, definitely get it. OK, but a LOT of men (both men and women) have utilized tinder to build real relationships with really great women, resulting in some truly memorable, unforgettable experiences.
When you’re on Tinder just looking to score a one night stand, sorting through all the saps in search of true love (or at least a first date) can be a royal pain. How is anyone supposed to get straight to it when everyone’s being ambiguous, trying to chat and whatnot?
Tinder’s X-rated brother, the adult-oriented hookup app Mixxxer, launched last week to help combat this problem and help users find nearby hookups without the hassle.
“People don’t know when they’re using Tinder if you’re using it to hook up or if you’re using it to find a date,” the app’s maker, Michael Manes, told The Daily Dot. “Our idea was to create something with a much clearer purpose, where you’re looking for one thing and one thing only.”
Like Tinder, the app uses your GPS location to offer you matches. Besides the fact that everyone is DTF, the major difference is that Mixxxer doesn’t sync with your Facebook profile, allowing you to upload any photos. We’re obviously talking about the sans clothing kind.
There’s also a valuable feature for those who want to post nudes but aren’t willing to put it all out there — the shower door, which enables you to sorta-kinda blur out your face or body.
If you’re somehow still questioning the purpose of this app, check out its site. It’s littered with elegant one-liners that put it quite simply: “this is not a dating app”: “join for free and get laid tonight!”; and “find horny locals wherever you are at any time.”
Although the app is littered with X-rated content, Mr. Manes told The Daily Dot he doesn’t want it to get labeled as a porn app. Inevitably though, the app being touted as “X-rated Tinder” has been banned from both the Apple and Google app stores. It currently isn’t available for download and can only be accessed as a mobile web app.
Another app, another XXX day in #tech.
Up until now dating apps, not to be confused with online dating websites, have had a male heavy demographic—that is, until Tinder came along. Tinder is the latest in a slew of location based hook-up partner finding apps that use GPS to locate future sex-mates. It's like Grindr for straight people. But, it's different than Blendr, the other 'Grindr for straight people,' and the dozens of others of dating apps out there in one critical aspect: women are actually using it. Tinder's founders bragged to us about the number of female users when it launched last October, and though they didn't have fresh numbers, the app has received a lot of vocal approval from women online, including female New York Times tech writer Jenna Wortham, who says 'there’s something about Tinder’s simple, flirty interface that is undeniably fun.' This acceptance might have something to do with the fact that unlike every other hook-up app out there, which were birthed by men, as Ann Friedman notes in The New Yorker, one of its four founders, Whitney Wolfe, is a woman.
So far hook-up apps haven't catered to women because they lack certain protections that the XX-demographic likes when meeting potential sexual partners, argues Friedman: 'women want authenticity, privacy, a more controlled environment, and a quick path to a safe, easy offline meeting.' Perhaps because of its single female voice, Tinder offers a lot of those things mostly by way of Facebook. The app syncs up with the social network in a 'cleverly discreet' way, as Wortham puts it. It uses all the data and information people put into the social network, without broadcasting anything to the rest of the social network. With that, the app 'successfully manages to decrease the creepiness of communicating with strangers ten-fold,' write two women on NYU Local. Here's how:
Privacy: The app accesses all of your Facebook information, something that is 'typically a turnoff for people who don’t want to accidentally see the profiles of their colleagues or worry about embarrassing notifications popping up on their Timeline,' as Wortham explains But, in exchange for that, it promises not to shamelessly promote itself on your timeline.
A More Controlled Environment: The app only lets people who have mutually liked each other (based mostly on their photo) message each other. Meaning: 'No more OkCupid troll sending you message after message promising dick pics if you give him your phone number,' as NYU Local's Caroline Hayes and Chelsea Beeler put it. In fact, the photos it chooses to show come up in a more controlled way because of its relationship to Facebook. In addition to location, shared interests, friends, and other Facebook things are what determine who you see.
Safe, Easy, Offline Meeting: Here's the part that Tinder doesn't quite offer. The location aspect of the app ensures the person is close-by, making meeting up easy. As for the safety part, that's a little harder. Again, the mutual Facebook friend thing makes checking out the person's credibility a little easier. Anecdotally, I've had friends tell me they've met up with people on Tinder in groups at bars, at first.
Tinder Is A Hookup App
People are certainly using the app. 1.5 billion profiles have been rated or ranked, according to Wortham, it has seen 20,000 daily downloads since October and has itself a four star rating in the iTunes store. 70 percent of its matches have led to chat conversations on the app. After that, it's unclear where those connections lead. Tinder doesn't follow up after-that. But, would people keep using the app just to chat with strangers close by? Probably not. The act of swiping through potential hook-ups might be addictive enough to keep people interested short term.