POF vs. Tinder: May The Best Dating App Win

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As you can tell by now everyday there seems to be a new dating app/site coming out of the woodwork trying to swindle us all into believing that if you sign up with them your almost guaranteed to make a love connection. Honestly it can all get a bit overwhelming when your single trying to fight the temptation of not signing up for any of them. Eventually you break and give in because they’re constantly spoken about by friends and just everyday people.

I finally gave in with POF a few months ago, but after three weeks I removed the app from my phone. It took me two weeks alone to think about what I wanted to write in my bio, so I said the hell with it. Nonetheless, a new debate have arrived between Tinder and POF which are the two premiere dating apps. I decided to make a short list to show what both dating apps have to offer and let the people decide.

POF:

• Accessible from your mobile app and PC
• Free
• Detailed profile and questionnaire
• Group Chats (Can get to know several people at the same time)
• Compatibility scores(Based on different factors to find matches)
• Data from your app can be exported to your email
• Social Networking features (Commenting and tagging)
• Tablet optimized version (Better user experience)
• Widgets can be added to home screen
• You can delete past messages

Tinder:

• Free
• You can see who’s within your location
• Push notifications
• Connected to your Facebook account (upload pictures, mutual friends, mutual likes, etc.)
• Nine more languages supported
• Media library (makes searching easier)
• The app can still be used without an account
• If there’s a mutual match your notified immediately
• You can specify your sexual orientation (easier to find a match)
• Simple swipe right if your interested and swipe left if not

If I had to make a choice, I would say both apps has its fair share of creeps. Now to pick the better evil, I would definitely go with Tinder. It’s just more user friendly for me and I get a kick out of showing I’m not interested with a smooth swipe to the left. So do you want to go swimming with plenty of fishes or do you want to swipe right to get liked? The choice is yours.

Which dating site will win the battle for the #1 digital cupid? Do you think OkCupid can stand a chance against Tinder?

Cupid and His New Target

We now live in a world where everything is at your finger tips digitally and you can satisfy all your needs within the click of a button. The fact that you can order pizza and an escort in the same motion is pretty cool and a bit awkward to me. Also, social media sites has now made interaction quite impersonal, but has been revolutionary for our current generation in so many different ways. The new in thing now seems to be these dating apps which is starting to increase in numbers as time progresses. Personally I’m pretty organic when it comes to meeting new people and I like face to face interactions, but I think these dating sites adds a pretty unique dimension. There’s a decent number of dating sites/ apps out there, but one in particular been garnering the most attention.

You guessed it, Tinder… Tinder is a matchmaking dating app and was released on September 15, 2012 to the public. I decided to download the application for experimental purposes and began to realize how intrigued and creeped out I was by it all at the same time. The mobile dating app uses Facebook to collect general information and generate matches through geographic location. They use facets such as friends, networks, and interests to calculate some form of data to help match users. Tinder is very mobile friendly and easy to use. I like to think they do a great job at cutting out the bullsh*t and getting straight to the point. A photo pops up on your screen of a potential match, you either swipe the picture right to display interest or to the left if you’re not interested. Long story short if I swipe right I can go all night, that was suppose to be a joke lol. Simply just means I think your hot and I’ll like to get to know you.

Tinder directs their target audience to digital natives, which are people who were born or brought up in the digital era and is very skilled with computers/the internet. Digital natives are partly composed of younger college students who are mostly the main active users for Tinder. In actuality Tinder was first introduced to college campuses to begin with.

Look at these interesting stats:

Check out my post on the ATL Hawks fun marketing strategy integrating Tinder cleverly dubbed,“Swipe Right Night”!