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What Boys Hate About Your Tinder Profile
I wouldn’t go so far to call them rules. But for most men there are certain no-gos regarding women’s Tinder profiles. The app is often blamed for bringing the shallowness of online dating services to another level. Or as Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic puts it in a more positive way:
In our technosexual era, the process of dating has not only been gamified, but also sexualised, by technology. Mobile dating is much more than a means to an end, it is an end in itself. With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process.
Defenders say it works like judging strangers in real life: You don’t have a second chance for the first impression. But enough of that (you can inform yourself about Tinder better elsewhere. And I recommend you to get familiar with the platform — at least otherwise chances are very little you’ll enjoy this listicle.
The pictures to avoid:
- Pets — no matter, if cats, dogs or (worst!) horses.
- All animals. No dolphins, even if you managed to swim with them. Exception: being photobombed.
- Costumes — not only for carnival in the German Rhineland, but in general. Especially, if you wear a pet costume. Meow!
- That “jump in the air” shot on a Thai beach.
- You on top of some scyscraper with a metropolitan skyline behind you.
- All pictures looking too touristic. (But still no Empire State Building pic, if you’re born and live in NYC.)
- Related to No 3: Dirndl dresses.
- You’re a social person, but don’t want other people in your profile pic? Find a better way than an image of yourself holding some alcoholic beverage.
The bios to avoid:
- “Carpe diem.”
- No “sporty” or “workout enthusiast” or “fitness freak” or whatever you call it (even in combo with a cheering photo-proof).
- “Looking for…” Nobody cares about that. A Tinder profile is a pitch, not a briefing. Tinder is the For sale, not the Wanted section of the blackboard called online dating.
- Don’t even think about writing words like “marriage” or “children” — men can see that in the look of your eyes.
The nicknames to avoid:
- If your real first-name consists of two syllables, there is no need to devide it. In general: If think you have a “funny” two-parted pseudonym on Facebook, please rethink its use for Tinder. And for FB, too.
- “Nicknames”. You know, what I mean.
The topic to avoid:
- Politics.
Especially the last one, of course, does apply to both sexes and all gender.
