Tinder
This week, Vanity Fair published an article about how much Tinder is shifting dating culture.
That’s very true! While Tinder isn’t wholly to blame, it is both the perfect microcosm of and lens with which to analyze how millennials interact with each other, especially when it comes to sex.
Course, the piece wasn’t entirely flattering. Titled ‘Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse,’ it had things like this to say:
And yet a lack of an intimate knowledge of his potential sex partners never presents him with an obstacle to physical intimacy, Alex says. Alex, his friends agree, is a Tinder King, a young man of such deft “text game”—“That’s the ability to actually convince someone to do something over text,” Marty explains—that he is able to entice young women into his bed on the basis of a few text exchanges, while letting them know up front he is not interested in having a relationship.
Yes, fact! Tinder has enabled a whole generations of pervs! But you know what, so did the telephone. Imagine how many people freaked when phone sex began. I bet dudes loved it.
“I can tell her I want to fuck from twenty block over. Woot!”
Every technology is going to be co-opted by perverts. That’s just how it works. But, the Tinds did not like this narrow focus on their wonderful app, which, you’re about to learn, helps gay dissidents in Pakistan overthrow the government. Or something. They went on a kinda unhinged rant on Twitter late last night, which we present to you in full. With some commentary.
Hey @nancyjosales — that survey is incorrect. If you're interested in having a factual conversation, we're here. https://t.co/SLWlTLvJuf
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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–@VanityFair Little known fact: sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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LOL good one.
–@VanityFair & @nancyjosales — we have lots of data. We surveyed 265,000 of our users. But it doesn’t seem like you’re interested in facts.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Our actual data says that 1.7% of Tinder users are married — not 30% as the preposterous GlobalWebIndex article indicated.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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It's disappointing that @VanityFair thought that the tiny number of people you found for your article represent our entire global userbase 😏
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Good emoji use right there.
Next time reach out to us first @nancyjosales… that’s what journalists typically do.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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The Tinder Generation is real. Our users are creating it. But it’s not at all what you portray it to be.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Stick a coat hanger down my throat if “The Tinder Generation is real” is supposed to be interpreted as a positive statement.
Tinder creates experiences. We create connections that otherwise never would have been made. 8 billion of them to date, in fact.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Tinder users are on Tinder to meet people for all kinds of reasons. Sure, some of them — men and women — want to hook up.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Just like in real life. And in the many years that existed before Tinder.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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But we know from our own survey data that it’s actually a minority of Tinder users.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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One second.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHA.
Okay, I’m good.
Our data tells us that the vast majority of Tinder users are looking for meaningful connections.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Now that could be true. But people can want two things at once.
And our data also tells us that Tinder actually creates those meaningful connections.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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We have tons and tons of emails from people that have all kinds of amazing experiences on Tinder.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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It’s about meeting new people for all kinds of reasons. Travel, dating, relationships, friends and a shit ton of marriages.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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I did use it when I traveled. To try and get laid.
Talk to the female journalist in Pakistan who wrote just yesterday about using Tinder to find a relationship where being gay is illegal.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Talk to our many users in China and North Korea who find a way to meet people on Tinder even though Facebook is banned.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Talk to the many Tinder couples — gay and straight — that have gotten married after meeting on Tinder.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Or talk to people that have made some of their best friends on Tinder.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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That has never happened.
The ability to meet people outside of your closed circle in this world is an immensely powerful thing.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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So we are going to keep focusing on bringing people together. That’s why we’re here. That is why all of us at Tinder work so hard.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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If you want to try to tear us down with one-sided journalism, well, that’s your prerogative.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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Good tough guy talk.
There’s like six more pointless tweets about how Tinder is crucial to the geopolitical fabric of the world, but it can all be summed up without words.
No, really. Read their last tweet.
But it’s not going to dissuade us from building something that is changing the world. #GenerationTinder
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
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One more time.