Now, I’m quite the keyboard warrior when it comes to witty remarks - my Instagram captions could honestly be entered into awards - but this shook me to my core. When you first start your profile, alongside uploading your Facebook profile pictures which are automatically pulled through to the app (you can change them later and connect your Instagram if you want), you’re asked to choose three questions to answer that will thus appear on your profile as cute titbits to start conversations. Hinge uses 'a sophisticated algorithm' to help facilitate connections (they previously used your Facebook friends.) and I clearly don’t care about hacking apparently. When you install Hinge, you can do so using Facebook or your mobile number. It used to have the same function as Tinder when it came to swiping, but has increasingly adapted to the ever-evolving intricacies of online dating, including question and answer prompts - WITH a voicenote feature!! - and installing a ‘Your Turn’ reminder to reply to messages, a tactic to decrease ghosting. First of all, what is Hinge?Ĭreating a real connection is Hinge’s raison d’etre, it sells itself as for the younger crowd, without Tinder’s superficial picture-only swiping, and its slogan is literally 'designed to be deleted'. So, in an attempt to make a connection that will provide more substance than the one-night-stand army that has invaded Tinder, I downloaded Hinge. I shouldn't say false, to be fair, maybe this one will be the one if I stop ghosting everyone after matching? Just maybe?! And for that there is only one solution: distract myself with online dating to create a false sense of hope that 'the one' is just around the corner if I actually made an effort to find them. like I love them, but why do they make me want to move to Los Angeles and fall in love with a music producer while giving physiotherapy to my old frail neighbour? And don't get me started on the festive romcoms.

Then comes those tense family gatherings where at least one auntie didn't get the modern-day feminism memo and starts interrogating you about marriage and kids over the roast potatoes. However, if there’s ever been a time to question my commitment to singledom, it's during the festive season.įirst, there's the PDA couples that go into overdrive in December, not just at your local Chistmas Market but online too (#boydidgood!!). I like to think of myself as a soldier for the single woman, nothing appeals to me less than accounting for another person’s whims and wishes when I barely have time for my own nonsense.

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