Thanks to mobile apps like Tinder, hooking up has become so much easier.
Tinder is very powerful because you only have to find the profiles of people that are within the same general vicinity as you.
You can say goodbye to the very common problem for most dating sites of seeing profiles located thousands of miles from you.
If you live in Hawaii, for example, it doesn’t really make sense to look for people who live in Maine or Florida, and vice versa.
Unfortunately, this is exactly the kind of problem that you see time and time again with standard online dating sites.
Hookup apps, on the other hand, have made completely local dating possible.
With that said, there’s a lot of confusion regarding whether these types of apps are actually much better than top hookup sites or online dating resources like Craigslist.
Here’s the inside scoop.
– Location Specific
The good news and the bad news with dating apps is that they’re very location specific.
Every mobile phone has a geolocation capability.
In other words, the information that you pull from the server will only be related to your specific area, and your area is always reported by your phone,
Sounds like awesome news, right?
The problem is a lot of scammers are using that technology to feed your phone with fake profiles.
Why would they want to do that?
Very simple: money.
They would create these fake profiles and lure you to click a link, which would then land you to a website that pays a commission to these scammers.
This is happening quite frequently regardless of how specific your location is, thanks to sophisticated geolocation tricks being pulled by scammers from all over the world.
Unfortunately, Tinder is the number one target of such scams.
– Focus on Pictures
The big advantage of mobile dating apps is that they allow guys to zero in on decent-looking women.
The older dating sites out there allow people to post fake profiles or no profiles at all.
With dating apps, you’re not really going to be all that successful unless you post a real picture.
So when it comes to some level of authenticity, there is some good news with these types of apps.
However, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of scammers just use fake profiles to use dating apps as a traffic source.
So it’s kind of like a two-edged sword.
The whole emphasis on physical appearance may be a refreshing breath of fresh air as far as authenticity is concerned.
On the other hand, it kind of stilts the conversation in such a superficial way that scam profiles get more attention than they deserve.
