![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, it’ll ask you a set of questions, props you for your interests, and it even bugs you till you upload a picture. Hinge believes that swiping keeps you single, and focuses on creating more engaging profiles that reduce users from treating other members like ‘a playing card they’d flick to the left or right’. How it works: Hinge pools all the singles in your extended friend circles (using Facebook as it’s underlying base) and matches you with the most likely of them, based on a serious of questions and common interests - which you have to ‘like’ to initiate an interaction - reducing the chance to run into a hopeless string of men who are just looking for ‘No-strings-attached’ sex. And that explains why hardly anyone (read: any gay man) uses it. It’s like the nerdier (and also less attractive) second cousin of Tinder. What it is: Hinge calls itself the ‘Relationship App’, and it leaves no stones unturned while trying to set you up with your soul mate. When a dating app promises that ‘75 percent of their first dates turn into second dates,’ you know they’ve got their hinges sealed shut. Remember the '90s - when internet trolls, post-millennials and online dating didn’t exist? Back when people would set each other up with their friends and ultimately get blamed for heartbreak (or worse, Herpes)? ![]()
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