• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    Yeah. But I wonder if this is catering for those people whilst framing it another way, or if people really have some good use for their mom/dad choosing their partners.

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      11 months ago

      I hope you aren’t serious. If anything, people will share links to group chats, have laughs and amusement while doing the swipe game on behalf of someone, and be done with it.

      Tinder has a long way to go to shake off the “hookup” platform vibe before they’re anywhere at risk of going into “ultra-conservative marriage arrangements” platform.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, guess you’re right. And the overlap between “we need to find you a righteous man / timid girl from our own religuous community” and “my son/daughter uses tinder” is small enough so it’s not of any concern.

        I wouldn’t like somebody else pick my dates. But I guess I’m going to read another article at some point, outlining some use-case for this.

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          11 months ago

          But this feature doesn’t make others pick your dates. It sounds like it adds a badge to people in your swipe queue saying your friends recommend the person.

          It just sounds like a fun way to pre-right-swipe a bunch of people for your buddies.

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      11 months ago

      Do you think any person whose parents practice arranged marriage would let said parents know of their tinder account? Or even that they have one?