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Happy Birthday Tinder – how the platform revolutionized dating
Right hop, left flop: Tinder has revolutionized dating with its swiping function.
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Hardly anything has changed the dating life of young people like Tinder. The app turns ten years old this year. starReporter Jana Luck talks about the development of online dating in the 316th “today important” episode.
Tinder is a smartphone app where you can get to know people whose location is mostly in your own area. If you swipe a profile to the right, you express interest. Swipe left if you don’t like it. If two people match, they can talk to each other and meet.
Swipe wherever you are: This is how Tinder revolutionized dating
This principle of online dating has been around for ten years now. The app is still the most popular dating app. The revolutionary thing about Tinder, explained starReporter Jana Luck in the current episode of “important today” was the swipe. Tinder was the first app to embrace this digital gesture. You no longer had to click through the profiles, but could swipe anywhere and quickly. “Tinder is structured like a game, which is why it’s so much fun,” explains Luck. The fact that the potential partners are nearby was also a new principle with a powerful impact.
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Podcast “important today”
Sure, opinionated, on the 12: “today important” is not just a news podcast. We set topics and initiate debates – with attitude and sometimes uncomfortable. Host Michel Abdollahi and his team speak out for this star– and RTL reporters with the most exciting people from politics, society and entertainment. They let all voices have their say, both the quiet and the loud. Anyone who hears “important today” starts the day well informed and can have a well-founded say.
Online dating: A principle with a future
There are now countless dating apps that are looking for new niches in the market and “want a piece of the pie”, as Jana Luck says. And money is not only earned with the apps themselves, there are also new business areas around them. The reporter reports on “Today Important” from Tinder ghostwriter Markus Dobler, who helps people who are shy or short on time to optimize their profile, chat with potential partners and finally get them a date. The biggest change in online dating is that it has come out of the “dirty corner,” says Jana Luck. “It just became normal.” The idea that only “strange people” would do something like that is a thing of the past. “I think that the way we look at it has really changed in the long term.”
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