Dating apps (part 1)

Are you in a relationship? In an open relationship? Or are you single and ready to mingle? How do you want to find your partner? Through match making by family and friends, someone whom you will meet at school or at work or through dating apps? Or how did you meet your partner?

I have long wanted to publish an article about this but I prioritized first some of the topics that was currently on my mind. Yesterday morning I backread some of my college friends' messages on Messenger. Of course we are already old enough to talk about adult stuffs and we do sometimes share about our experiences when it comes to sex. Back in college we usually just joke about those things but now it is different since we have already experienced it and most of them has kids now. By the way, we are all girls in the group chat that I am referring to. We also have another group chat where the boys are included but we don't usually joke about stuffs like that not because it is awkward but we tend to talk about it in person and over beer. LOL. With my college girl friends, it is different because we get to talk about anything and everything. Pretty sure most girls can relate to what I am saying.

The discussion that I missed the other night was about dating apps. They were telling our friend who had been divorced for years now to try Tinder or Hinge. I am only familiar with the former as our helper and I have tried it before. As of drafting this, I paused to search for Hinge on Playstore but I think it's not available here in the Philippines. Will try to ask my friends about it soon. One of my friends said that Hinge was ok in Canada since our friend who was divorced was in Canada. Our friend in Hawaii said that Hinge is not ok in her country and she asked how did she knew that Hinge was ok in Canada since she was in California. She said that she tried it when she studied in Canada and had some Asian dates through Hinge. Nice!

Let me ask you this, are you guys open to try datings apps like Tinder, Dating.com or any platforms in finding your love life? Actually I only know Dating.com as it always pops up when browsing some sites and sometimes it is advertised on Wordscapes. Even my mom knew about it and had told me and our helper to try it. LOL. Then I heard Grindr from my friend from work though he said that is for gays. Ok going back to my question, honestly there is this side of me that wants to try Tinder for fun and there is this side of me that is more into the idea of being in a relationship with someone whom I have spent time with physically. You can actually fake everything virtually. I can say I am good even if I am not or vice versa. You can lie about a lot of stuffs.

But of course not all of the people on these dating apps are imposters or scammers. There are also some who had some success stories and have met their happily ever after in Tinder. My friend's college friend had met her husband through Tinder and they are now living in Canada. Yes, Canada again. 2 of my college friends have had relationships with people they met on Tinder. They still don't like to tie the knot so Tinder is always their go to app whenever they are loveless. Then years ago I also read an article of the daughter of a veteran actor here in the Philippines who had met her husband through Tinder as well and they already have a baby.

And just this morning while I was browsing Instagram, I saw one former Filipina actress who is now residing in America and is married with one kid who also met her husband through Tinder. Because of that I told to myself that I have to publish my article about dating apps. Did you think I was going to say that I will try some dating apps? LOL. I think that is the least of my concerns right now. But who knows I might actually give it a try someday.

My mom's sister had always told me to download Tinder many times before because I am the only one who is single. One of my cousin who is in Canada is also single but he's a guy. So my godmother is really worried for me that I might end up being an old maid just like her. I know that it is just so easy in Tinder because you will just swipe, swipe, swipe but that time I wasn't really open to the idea of trying any dating apps.

My college friends who recommended Tinder and Hinge to our friend were talking about how cool it is to swipe through a lot of guys. They said that they will be doing our friend's profile on Tinder. So I guess I would have to ask them to make me a profile as well if in case I decided to try Tinder. LOL. They were even asking 3 different kind of photos from our friend. They are so supportive don't you think? I still haven't check our group chat if there are any updates on the Tinder thing but I know it will be very interesting once she finally created her profile and started swiping.

P.S. my lead image is a screenshot of Tinder on Playstore. I don't have Tinder "yet" so that will do for now. LOL