{"id":1219,"date":"2014-12-11T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/improvingourworld.winonastateu.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2022-04-05T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:26:49","slug":"traipsing-through-tinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/2014\/12\/11\/traipsing-through-tinder\/","title":{"rendered":"Traipsing Through Tinder"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post contains some explicit material that some may find triggering.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We have this friend, who for blogging purposes, we will call Betsy. Betsy is, quite frankly, a connoisseur of online dating. Now, we know what you are thinking, \u201cOnline Dating \u2013 isn\u2019t that for weird dudes who smell vaguely of cheese and are obsessed with cartoon ponies?\u201d That\u2019s where you, dear reader, are wrong. Online dating has this stigma attached to it that it doesn\u2019t necessarily deserve. Online dating can be fun for just about anyone. As long as respect and consent are involved, you can\u2019t go wrong.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to Betsy. Betsy was well versed in the ways of web-based romance well before Tinder even entered the realm of online dating. Still, when her friends suggested the dating app, she was hesitant. Tinder was different from any dating site she had ever tried before. Tinder is an app for smartphones that is heavily image based with thousands of profiles at your fingertips. In seconds, you decide whether or not you\u2019d like to get to know the user based purely on their profile picture. Sure, you can read their profile, but many users don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

(If you\u2019re unfamiliar with Tinder, this article<\/a> is a quick read that sums it up pretty well.)<\/p>\n

Feeling brave, Betsy decided to go for it anyway. At first it was awesome, she met some great people, had some good conversations and generally felt respected. Then she met Fred. Fred spent weeks wooing her. Under the impression that he was a kind, funny person she agreed to meet him. Boy, was she wrong! The date was awkward, tense and genuinely unpleasant. Wait \u2013 it gets worse. Fred decided to tweet about Betsy\u2019s body after the date. He wrote, \u201cNever trust a girl who only posts pictures of her face on Tinder.\u201d He later added, \u201cSecret internet fatties are the worst.\u201d No Fred, you are the worst.<\/p>\n

When Betsy looked different than Fred had envisioned, the way he treated her drastically changed. He went from nice to nasty in seconds. Although we believe that the way a woman looks should in no way be correlated with the way people treat her, it got our group in WAGS class thinking. We wondered exactly how much the way a woman presents herself online could influence the type of message she receives, even before meeting that individual.<\/p>\n

With inspiration from this blog<\/a>, our group set out to determine how a woman\u2019s identity influences her experience with online dating, especially on Tinder. We made three different profiles based on three different types of women –a goth<\/a>, a mainstream student<\/a> and a party girl<\/a>–to see how other users in the Winona area would respond. My group kept each profile up for four days and swiped yes to every user in order to collect responses from all walks of life.<\/p>\n

In the next post<\/a>, we’ll tell you what we learned about being a mainstream student on Tinder.<\/p>\n

–Samantha Atkins, Clare Arvidson and Mike McArdle<\/span>
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This blog post contains some explicit material that some may find triggering. We have this friend, who for blogging purposes, we will call Betsy. Betsy is, quite frankly, a connoisseur of online dating. Now, we know what you are thinking, \u201cOnline Dating \u2013 isn\u2019t that for weird dudes who smell vaguely of cheese and are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[440,441,442,443,444,445,446,315],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-our-world","tag-clare-arvidson","tag-mike-mcardle","tag-samantha-atkins","tag-sexual-harrassment","tag-social-media","tag-stereotypes","tag-tinder","tag-wags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OGye-jF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/improving-our-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}