Dating apps like Tinder and Bumbler allow people to connect and be more upfront with each other. Tinder started in 2012 and Bumble started in 2014. College students use these apps to get in on the hook-up scene, find dates for events or even find true love. The way each person uses the app is entirely up to the person using it, which is why it’s becoming increasingly more popular among college kids.
The article “What are you doing on Tinder? Impression management on a matchmaking mobile app” focuses on the reason why anyone would use Tinder.
Sports teams, fraternities, and sororities have events you’re supposed to bring a date to.
Zack is an active member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity that has events often. Most of the events require the members to bring a date.
“Not everyone is looking for love,” Lanham said. “I don’t have enough time to devote to dating and women deserve better than what I could give them right now,”
Zack is also a member of the Texas Wesleyan cheer team and the team usually brings a date to the banquet at the end of the year.
Lanham recalls walking into the Baker building without a date. He takes a deep breath and wipes his hands on his pants. He shakes hands with his other fraternity members, “Where’s Jade?”, one man asks glancing around the room.
“She uh, she couldn’t make it. We kind of broke up,” Zack replied.
He glanced down at his black dress shoes shining in the light and smiled in a sad sort of “I’m okay way,” before sitting down to repeat these same two phrases the entire night.
Alyssa Hutchinson a sophomore biology major uses Tinder as a way to meet more people than just Wesleyan students.
The reason she likes the app is that it gives more options than just the few thousand people Wesleyan has to offer.
“There just wasn’t anybody here that I felt attracted to,” she said. “Wesleyan is such a small school and so many people are taken that the dating pool is too small.”
Walking down the hall Hutchinson can’t help but notice all of the team T-shirts. Huddles of athletes in jeans clutter the halls of the science building. She shrugs and continues to walk to her car glancing around but no one catches her eye. She sighs and gets in to drive home away from all the jocks.
“Tinder just lets me meet more people that have the same interests as me,” she said. It’s hard to know if someone is a good fit just from casual conversation but Tinder finds matches for you.”
It’s easier to meet people on Bumble or Tinder because everybody on the app is interested in meeting new people and dating, junior religion major Luis Santillan said.
Santillan had a lot of bad luck in one particular month every woman he approached had a boyfriend or girlfriend, wasn’t interested in dating, or just didn’t have feelings for him. That’s when he tried Tinder.
“I was just down on my luck,” Santillan said, “but Tinder gave me a chance to meet a lot of people that were looking for a guy like me.”
It was a step in the right direction for Santillan who eventually met his fiancé on Tinder. It made it easy to find eligible people so he could stop being the guy that hit on everybody else’s girlfriend he said.
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