Bull. Shit. I joined Tinder about a month ago. In that time, I've gotten two matches. TWO. One of them was a bot that invited me to "play with [her] on webcam." No thanks. And the other one, I didn't even chat with, because she was obviously either an advertisement for a (probably fake) adult dating site, or she was an actual escort. I'm not quite that desperate and sad right now. I'm not judging-- if I had tons of money to throw away, God knows what I'd spend it on.
I realize some of my bad luck at Tinder is probably my fault: maybe I'm swiping 'like' on girls who are out of my league; or maybe the girls I'm swiping are too young for me, and they're not interested in a 32 year old guy. But hell, Tinder isn't supposed to be Match.com-- we're looking for dates, not long-term relationships with Mr. or Mrs. Right. ...It probably also doesn't help that the nearest cities of any size are over an hour away. Maybe people don't want to bother with people who live too far away. I *really* need to move to the city.
Whatever the reasons, it's discouraging. And it's even more discouraging that I feel like I have to post this here, for strangers to read, rather than post it on my Facebook page. Because, for whatever reason, I don't want to admit to my friends that I'm attempting the online dating/hookup thing. In fact, I found someone I know on Tinder-- someone I would actually like to date, or hook up with, or whatever, and I just closed the app. I didn't want to swipe 'no,' but I couldn't bring myself to swipe 'like' either. Because then things might get "real." ...I've got problems, I know.