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To sign up for Tinder, is to willingly subject yourself to the frequently immature, cheesy, and defensively rude whims of other people using the app, just to f**k with people. Every now and again, you might get lucky with a right swipe that doesn't give way to fresh bullsh*t. But with that, we wish you good luck. These people are out there experiencing most anything besides that. 

This impatient essayist is so caught up in falling in love with the sound of his own voice on paper, it could be a while before he finds any luck on this app. If you open your self-summary telling your potential match to f**k you and then proceed to write an essay that beats around the bush, while centering on the FIRST sentence you said, which is ultimately about you getting laid....you're going to have a bad time. Or not. Maybe he's rolling around in Pound Town right now. 

Author, Kate O'Neill used her platform on Twitter to encourage people participating in online activities like the recent, trending profile picture aging meme on Facebook, to slow down and think about it critically. O'Neill asks people to consider how willingly posting that information online for Facebook's seemingly sentient algorithm to digest, can have a ripple effect on society as a whole; how that information can be fed into worldwide databases, sold off to advertising agencies, and used to exploit the very people that upload it, without considering the impacts, in the process. She doesn't aim to inspire panic in this Twitter thread, but instead, she wants us to think critically when considering the fast-changing landscape of the world around us. Some solid advice! 

The population of Tinderers never fails to keep things comfortably on the side of immaturity, spicy witty banter, bold (and/or clueless) pickup lines, and shamelessness. These are all A+ examples. If you need more of what the wild word of Tinder has to offer, look over here. 

Just absolutely heartless!

You never know what kind of family secret you might uncover when searching through old computers. Truly, proceed at your own risk. 

We're not sure who's more shocked here; The retail worker who learned the power symbol isn't a camera, or the tech support dude who had to tell them?

Here are some of the unrelenting trials and tribulations of living in a land of plenty. Some people are more self aware than others.

You miss every shot you don't take. We've got a nice spread of brash and occasionally smooth Tinderers trying their best to make something happen in a Wild West seemingly hellbent on teasing unrealistic expectations endlessly, by its very design. 

When someone says something profoundly stupid, there's no sense in trying to argue with them. It's better to just let it happen and hope that life takes care of it.

The existential crisis is painfully real right now. 

Old people are adapting to technology. Slowly. And while you can't really blame them for trying, we're witness to a mountain of social hiccups out there in the internets.