Meeting up with a guy from Hinge in a couple hours…

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters It's the 'dating site that is designed to be deleted' lol. That's how it's marketed.

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters like tinder but a bit different

@Zeuro different in what way?

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters the way it's structured and marketed. Hinge is the hipster trendy cousin to tinder and bumble.

@zonavar68 thanks for the explanation

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters Hinge kinda requires more info in your bio, asks you a lot more questions than Tinder does, has a variety of prompts and features. Also to match with someone instead of swiping right on their whole profile you have to send a like on a particular element of their profile, or if they’ve already liked you you have to respond to whatever they liked on your profile. Messages are categorized differently, sorted between ones you haven’t talked in a while, ones where it’s your turn to respond and ones where it’s theirs. You can include voice memos in your bio, and it gives a long list of prompts you can respond to. Also you generally see who likes you and have the option to match or not match with them, versus the guessing game that Tinder usually is.

@Zeuro Hinge, like Tinder, Bumble, etc. are designed to fully advantage women over men. Tinder lets anyone match with anyone, Bumble makes a woman 'make the first move', Hinge requires mutual matching. Still terrible for men.

@Zeuro thanks

@zonavar68 no it’s not that they’re designed to advantage women over men. By design it’s quite egalitarian, on Tinder and Hinge. With Bumble it forces women to make the first move, which can be argued as advantageous to either gender. It just ends up that way because more men use these apps and men are by nature more desperate. At least if you’re looking for hookups that is. Women often complain of the lack of men looking for serious relationships. But ask yourself, why is an egalitarian platform that treats men and women the same disadvantageous for men? Think about it, and you’ll realize it’s not the apps themselves that are the problem.