If dating apps seem too superficial to you, Tinder has the solution.
Thought for all those tired of the incessant ball of swipes, Tinder is rolling out a new feature to its Fast Chat lineup today. Rather than matching by scrutinizing the photos of a possible crushthe application now offers blind acquaintance. baptized blind date, the option will allow two Internet users to meet without seeing each other. The algorithm will first determine the compatible profiles, before offering them to get to know each other by chatting or playing games together. After a first contact, and if the match is reciprocal, the two Internet users will finally be able to access the other’s profile.
Games to get to know each other
To determine if the man or the woman of your life is hiding on Tinder, the application will offer to get to know each other through a series of timed questions as crazy as “It’s OK to wear a shirt _ times without washing it”. The objective is obviously to respond as quickly and as sincerely as possible. Depending on the answers of your interlocutor, it will then be possible to continue the conversation, or to switch to another profile.
Conceived as a new means of meeting “without the fuss”the Blind Date should also delight generations Y and Z, by surfing “their 90s nostalgia” assures the brand, which is careful not to detail what this means. So far in the testing phase, the feature has already paid off, with 40% more matches compared to other Fast Chat options. Logic, for a mechanism at the antipodes of what Internet users usually consume on dating applications, where the most important thing remains the first physical impression.
Deployed today in the United States, the Blind Date from Tinder should quickly arrive in France. The firm is already reporting an international deployment “in the coming weeks”.
