Love Me Tinder: A Miss Undateable Journey

     Let's talk about how in roughly five years from now meeting your significant other in the real world will be almost obsolete. The times are changing and we are caught in the middle. Five years ago when someone said 
"we met online" it had a negative stigma attached. In today's world we accept it as a possibility, but most of us still have trust issues. 
     Again, I wonder where does someone like me go to meet someone else as awesome as me? I'm 22. An awkward age when the bar scene is almost to young for you if you're in a college town. Plus, being in grad school doesn't help. Having hardly any free time, and when I get free time I just want to nap or watch Say Yes to the Dress. 

      However, in an attempt to seek out this "we met online" concept on a college kid budget I took to Tinder. For those who don't know, Tinder is a phone app that allows you to create a profile and then look at people who also have profiles that are a set number of miles away from your actual location. As you scroll through these people you can like or dislike them. If they like your profile and you liked theirs it's a match and you can chat with them. 
      Now, yes this has a certain level of creepiness. Especially since it tells you how many miles away a person is. Since this was an experiment, I set parameters: no one younger than 21 or older than 30, only males and no selfies on their profile. I got several matches, but didn't initiate any conversations until my second week. 
      So, when I started this I was sure everyone on there was looking for hookups or to get nudie pics. As I waited for these propositions they never came. At this point I was confused, and decided to meet one of these guys when I was out one night. 
      To say I was terrified is an understatement, but he turned out to be a very nice guy. A very nice guy with a kid. And guess who's not ready to be a mom. That's right, this girl right here. 
      Anyway, I guess my point is Tinder might not be a bad option for those of us with no realistic way to meet someone. Don't get me wrong, I'll still go to the bar and try to find someone the old fashion way, but the internet is no longer an outlandish idea to me. 
      Stay tuned for more Tinder updates. I'll take you readers on this journey with me, and feel free to leave comments with your own Tinder experiences! 

Stay Sassy - A.