Tinder

Tinder is one of the strangest social phenomenons I have encountered in the media. For those of you not familiar with it, it's an app on smartphones that let's you pick whether someone in your area is hot or not, and if you and someone else think each other is hot, it sets you up to chat. I'll shamelessly admit that I have spent some time on there; it has it's pros and cons. One of my favorite profile taglines I've seen is, "Can anybody really take this seriously?"

But it's a wildly popular app. I wonder why. Is it so hard to meet people in real life? Is dating digitizing? I think it is. It's so much easier to swipe yes on a person, than walking up to them and asking for their number. People have a lot more courage to be smooth or debonair,  hiding behind a keyboard.

The thing about technology is that it's all about innovation. It's about making things easier. Tinder is associated with a hook-up culture. Easy make outs make for a successful app. But a large part of me wishes that we could reclaim our self-respect in society. Getting someone to kiss you shouldn't be so easy, girls should make guys put in the appropriate work.

So is tinder derailing the fabric of society and dating? A little bit.