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_refugee_  ·  3238 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tinderization of Feeling

    it has evolved beyond that into a "Yes but not if I find someone else on this next swipe"

Really? I have not had this experience, in part because everyone is gone once you swipe them, so it's not possible to make comparable decisions.

I will also state that occasionally, when I have Tindered, there is a third option to the left/right binary: for whatever reason I have come across individuals I neither want to swipe left, or right on, and when that happens, I exit the app. (Usually it's people I know in real life that admittedly, yes, I know I'd like to bone, but I don't want them to know I want to bone them. Usually because boning isn't actually what it's all about. Let's call it "confused attraction." Am I currently dating someone who I was confusedly attracted to and refused to swipe either way on? You bet your pants I am. The confused attraction is always reserved for people I know IRL, of course.)