There is a big jump from letting someone do some swipes on your Tinder profile with your permission to forcing an unwanted marriage for third party gains.
Yeah. But I wonder if this is catering for those people whilst framing it another way, or if people really have some good use for their mom/dad choosing their partners.
I hope you aren’t serious. If anything, people will share links to group chats, have laughs and amusement while doing the swipe game on behalf of someone, and be done with it.
Tinder has a long way to go to shake off the “hookup” platform vibe before they’re anywhere at risk of going into “ultra-conservative marriage arrangements” platform.
Yeah, guess you’re right. And the overlap between “we need to find you a righteous man / timid girl from our own religuous community” and “my son/daughter uses tinder” is small enough so it’s not of any concern.
I wouldn’t like somebody else pick my dates. But I guess I’m going to read another article at some point, outlining some use-case for this.
But this feature doesn’t make others pick your dates. It sounds like it adds a badge to people in your swipe queue saying your friends recommend the person.
It just sounds like a fun way to pre-right-swipe a bunch of people for your buddies.
So this morning I got a pop up in Tinder saying I can try it. Threw it in an incognito tab and it’s a marketing ploy for tinder to get your friends on their app lol
You click the link, it asks you to login, make a tinder account, or skip. Then asks for your birthdate and name, then you get 20 or so people to swipe on left or right.
I’m not part of that culture so I have difficulties emathizing… I suppose that’s often more forced on them. Not a thing they do out of their own free will.
It’s not even swipes. It’s an overlay showing which potential swipes have are recommended by your chosen recommenders (who can’t message or interact with any users). The first step of actually choosing to swipe left or right remains with the user.
It is quite common, in places like the Indian subcontinent. Though I really doubt Tinder will be able to make any significant dent of it’s own in this domain here.
Wow, I think that’s the best example of ‘framing’ I’ve seen in a long time. Aren’t things like arranged marriage considered controversial?
There is a big jump from letting someone do some swipes on your Tinder profile with your permission to forcing an unwanted marriage for third party gains.
Yeah that’s like saying someone setting you up on a blind date is arranging a marriage for you
Yeah. But I wonder if this is catering for those people whilst framing it another way, or if people really have some good use for their mom/dad choosing their partners.
I hope you aren’t serious. If anything, people will share links to group chats, have laughs and amusement while doing the swipe game on behalf of someone, and be done with it.
Tinder has a long way to go to shake off the “hookup” platform vibe before they’re anywhere at risk of going into “ultra-conservative marriage arrangements” platform.
Yeah, guess you’re right. And the overlap between “we need to find you a righteous man / timid girl from our own religuous community” and “my son/daughter uses tinder” is small enough so it’s not of any concern.
I wouldn’t like somebody else pick my dates. But I guess I’m going to read another article at some point, outlining some use-case for this.
But this feature doesn’t make others pick your dates. It sounds like it adds a badge to people in your swipe queue saying your friends recommend the person.
It just sounds like a fun way to pre-right-swipe a bunch of people for your buddies.
So this morning I got a pop up in Tinder saying I can try it. Threw it in an incognito tab and it’s a marketing ploy for tinder to get your friends on their app lol
You click the link, it asks you to login, make a tinder account, or skip. Then asks for your birthdate and name, then you get 20 or so people to swipe on left or right.
This thing is definitely a novelty for silliness.
Thanks for doing the research.
Do you think any person whose parents practice arranged marriage would let said parents know of their tinder account? Or even that they have one?
I’m not part of that culture so I have difficulties emathizing… I suppose that’s often more forced on them. Not a thing they do out of their own free will.
It’s not.
It’s not even swipes. It’s an overlay showing which potential swipes have are recommended by your chosen recommenders (who can’t message or interact with any users). The first step of actually choosing to swipe left or right remains with the user.
It is quite common, in places like the Indian subcontinent. Though I really doubt Tinder will be able to make any significant dent of it’s own in this domain here.