Tinder Is Weird

Does this icon look familiar? You have probably seen it on your phone or someone else's phone. It is the Tinder App icon. Tinder is a mobile dating application used by millions and is known for being slightly creepy. Tinder’s most important claim to fame, however, is the Tinder “bio” or “biography.”

Tinder bios are a way for people to "put themselves out there." The most common reason Tinder users add a biography to their profiles is to lure “scrollers” or to catch a potential lover’s attention. Tinder allows you to narrow down your search for that one creepy cyber lover by inputting your age and your location. This feature rounds up all the weirdos in your area who are within your age range.

Consequently, you can narrow your search further by examining the famous Tinder bios of people around you (and probably rating them as “hot or not”) and swiping right if you think they are compatible with you or left if you do not. Tinder bios are known for being funny, awkward, weird, and sometimes even a joke. Nevertheless, these biographies are not limited to jokes. Believe it or not, there are people out there who take mobile applications like Tinder seriously. People in the search of love write serious biographies about themselves hoping that their soul mate will somehow stumble into their profile. No matter the situation, Tinder users are most likely trying to seem interesting whether it is by being funny or not.

 Tinder biographies usually include the following pieces of information (in no particular order): name, age, interests, a suggestive “emoji” or two, a link to your Instagram or Facebook so that your cyber admirers have the ability to stalk you even more than they already have, and sometimes even some sort of clever or pensive quote that will make you seem like less of a desperate wreck to other users.

 Serious users tend to express their desires in their Tinder biographies, often describing what they are looking for and what they are willing to reciprocate. Usually these biographies are written in a casual and flirty manner in order to seem laid back and, again, interesting. In less serious cases, Tinder users fill their biographies with possible scenarios of what a date would look like if you would only “swipe right” on their profile. Sometimes they include crude or nonsensical jokes that will allow their effervescent humor shine through. Other times they simply leave their biographies blank. The enthrallment with Tinder biographies has reached such an all-time craze that by Googling “how to write a Tinder bio” you can effortlessly find websites dedicated to writing the perfect biography, for example: http://tinderadvisor.com/tinder-bio/.

The humorous Tinder biographies, however, are the ones that have claimed the most fame and have gone viral. These electronic oddities can be found if you search "funny tinder bios" on Google. Tinder biographies are often meant to attract potential love interests, but on occasion they are directed towards anyone looking for a good joke while swiping left and right creepy dude after creepy dude. Despite originally being meant for finding romantic relationships or flings around your area, Tinder biographies have evolved into Internet memes and absurd sensations that never fail to make people smile.