Tinder Dice

I moved to Utah, and told myself and all my people that I was not going to do online dating. What if I ran into my students? What if it was terrible?


Then I went to the mid-singles ward and decided once and for all that that was not my scene.

So, I swallowed all my pride and joined online dating and the scary world of Tinder.

[I have a lot of friends who are married and don't know what tinder is. Basically it shows you pictures of people and you swipe right if you like them and left if you don't. If you both swiped right (liked each other) then you can chat, or just sit there not talking for months. If you didn't match, you never know if they just haven't found you yet or if they swiped left. There is additional info about common friends, interests and a short blurb about themselves, but you have to actually tap on the picture to get to that info, so that additional "barrier" sometimes is enough for no one to look into that.]

Initially I was really bad at it with no selection criteria. Tinder already sets you up for wildly awkward scenarios and first dates and without dependable selection criteria, it just guarantees you to have a terrible time.

I got much better at mining through the potential matches. I'm told that in being picky at least I'll be getting closer statistically to dating the people I like.

Here's the thing with the selection of Tinder men in Utah: Shirts off, climbing rocks. No rock even necessary - just abs sometimes. Hoisting guns or shooting them. Always group photos or shots where they are so far away you have no idea who they are. What I especially don't understand are the pictures of almost every man posing with a lion or tiger. Where are these pictures coming from?

There was just a NEW GIRL episode about Tinder. They called it "Dice", but it was basically the same thing. I think the sentiment was dead on because the episode focused solely on how to escape out of really crazy dates. I'm always stoked when I meet someone seemingly "normal" on Tinder and then I am so equally stoked that I only agreed to a one hour date when things go badly after only 20 min.

Heaven help singles in the Tinder scene. It's a mess out here.

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