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Whether you are a college student, newly single – young adult, or a parent who is interested in understanding the use of dating apps such as Tinder, or Bumble. You should know the use of these apps have brought the world of networking and flirting, much closer.
The most important things to consider when ensuring safety while using dating apps is to make sure you’re talking to the actual person, yes catfishing is 100% real and can happen to anyone. Second, know when to take the conversation out of the in app messages, and finally choose a location to meet your match at a time and place that you’d feel comfortable in if anything were to go wrong.
Using these apps comes with the idea of talking to complete strangers, you essentially may have no clue who these other singles are. Just their first name, some pictures, and hopefully other linked social media. Not every match can be a bad case, but it’s often important to give yourself an extra layer of sources to know that your match isn’t entirely a stranger. Which brings me to my first important strategy to safely using dating apps: linked social media.
When creating a dating profile you are asked if you’d like to allow potential matches to view photos on other social media platforms. This is one of the easiest ways to truly get to know the person you are interested in because sometimes 2 pictures of a person and a short bio without an additional link to their instagram can lower the chances of them getting swipes, or matches. Although these apps generally do not give out last names, and only a glance at more photos: this is important to understand that this is their way of keeping your private life safe. The pros of having the option to see instagram posts from a person is knowing that they are users on other social medias and are truly verified as that person, so any thoughts of catfishing are out of the loop. But if you as a user are considering linking your instagram remember that others on your posts are also being shown to these viewers, so making sure any revealing content is reviewed and that your instagram is showing what you’d like these people to see.
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