Don’t Ask For Their Instagram
Over the last 10-ish years (yes, Tinder’s been around that long), my single friends and I noticed something while using dating apps.
It was consistent across all the apps, independent of gender, race, or some other defining feature — and its annoyance was unparalleled.
Moving the chat to Instagram and the effects of that.
You’d have the most exciting conversation, snappy dialogue back and forth. Tension, fun, all the ingredients were there. Then something weird would happen.
You (or they) would escalate things off the app to somewhere like Instagram, and ka-fuck, the conversations fizzled almost immediately. It may not have been the next day or the next few, but it’d fizzle — it was just a matter of time.
Things would cease to be interesting, fun, or snappy, and that’d be another person on the “didn’t work out” list.
And the leading theory for me was to do with these three concepts:
The new, the familiar, and the way the apps work.
🍰 Dating Apps and Sugar Highs
Let me tell you something you already know so we can both nod in agreement — dating apps…
