Tinder is Today's Ring of Sauron

 

 

 

 

I am currently listening to the Lord of the Rings 3 audio books with special effects and actual voice actors. Incredible. Anyway, I find Tinder to be similar to the One Ring of Power or Sauran's ring:

 

When you use this tool, you feel powerful because people are liking you. There is a superficial feel and slick presentation to the product. It's hard to put down. The reward-gratification factor is simple. Swipe right, like, or super-like. 

 

The ring of power is extremely seductive and very powerful. Putting on the ring makes you invisible. Your hearing and vision sharpen dramatically. Your footsteps become silent. To others, you appear as a menacing figure with a dark, menacing shadow. The ring has a seductive evil power that pulls the users into it's service by bending their will towards it. The ring will actually make you love it, and give up everything for it.  Your precious.

 

 

It becomes too easy to pick up. Getting attention is addictive.  I cannot even imagine holding a conversation with 10-15 women at one time. Impossible.

 One has to wonder what artificial intelligence the MatchGroup is using on their back-end systems. I suspect it's not very advanced and just based off simple if/then scripts. They do over auto-matching, but honestly I'm a bit confused as to what criteria it uses to create compatibility. 

First, not all relationships involve similar people. My late wife was completely the opposite of me, and yet, we were a great match. And while Tinder has focused on the head shot aspect - at which most people judge you.

Apparently you can hack Tinder on the web site by using Chrome and editing the javascript. Yes, someone has done that to get tiny pictures of the people who 'liked' them. 

Imagine being matched with someone 12,000 miles away, in a remote village?

My mind said NO, but my heart said go for it!