How to Plan a Valentine’s Date If You’re Stuck in a Rut
Photo: dezy (Shutterstock) Planning a date for Valentine’s Day is tricky. You want it to be special, but roses and a reservation feels cliché. Stay in and cook dinner together…
Stop Sharing Tinder Screenshots on the Internet, You Monsters
Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock) “The internet has a privacy problem,” isn’t a statement that’s likely to shock you. But just because we’ve all lost a lot of what we traditionally…
Your Dating App Voice Prompt Sucks (and How to Make It Better)
Photo: insta_photos (Shutterstock) After tweeting out a joke and a screenshot of someone messaging me on Hinge, I read through a lot of complaints (mostly from men) about how it…
Avoid These Dating App Clichés So You Actually Get a Match
Photo: Boryana Manzurova (Shutterstock) While dating apps have become a staple of modern life over the past decade or so, they’ve always been a little hard to use. Some people…
13 of the Best Dating Apps to Find Love or Mess Around
Photo: Vladimka production (Shutterstock) One quick caveat before we move away from swipe-based dating and into diving into the mathematical battlefields of eharmony, Match, and OkCupid: algorithms can’t actually predict…
How to Actually Get (Good) Responses on Your Dating Apps
If you’re on dating apps, then you know that for every match you get, you’re doing a lot of swiping. And swiping. And…some more swiping. Even if you have plenty…
Try “Slow Dating” If You’re Sick of Puddle-Deep Partners
Photo: Eugenio Marongiu (Shutterstock) If you’re accustomed to swiping through a sea of profiles on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, or any of the major dating apps, the process of searching for…
How to Make Friends After a Big Life Change (or Ever)
Photo: Monkey Business Images (Shutterstock) Did your friends move away during the pandemic? Did you get a new job and find yourself among mysterious colleagues you only know through Slack…
How to Block Your Exes and Coworkers on Tinder
Meeting people on dating apps can be fun, but the last thing most people want to see while swiping is a face from their past. Luckily, avoiding your ex—or anyone…
Heartbreaking Stories of People Who Got Scammed on Tinder During the Pandemic
Illustration: Benjamin Currie/Gizmodo Every social media site has scammers, but there’s something extra depressing about people getting scammed on dating sites like Tinder. Unfortunately, it happens all the time, and…