Do people around you look down on you if you use Tinder/Grindr?

[Gloupipoo]

My bff recently using Grindr massively and ppl keep calling him trashy when I think it's no one else's bsn.

 

Tinder/Grindr users, do you get perceived differently if you say you met someone on there? How?

[xingsass]

I don't really have a social life so...

[Gloupipoo]

I don't really have a social life so...

 

So this answer is contributing to the topic how...?

[SUGA FREE]

No, these apps are irrelevant in my country

[í—�!]

I use Blued :3

[Nev Schulman]

Well people I know don't take that seriously more as a joke, I wouldn't say they look down on it but they just don't see why people would use the app (but more than half of them have a partner sooo....)

[Manic]

around here, people judge more about what you do with it rather than whether or not you use it

but like they should simmer down neway

[Elle Eaux Elle]

It's almost the norm to meet someone from Tinder/Grindr here nowadays

[ashenking]

As a gay man if you look down on me for using these apps I will laugh in your face. It is extremely difficult and potentially dangerous for LGBT+ to just meet and make moves on people in real life. We are constantly on edge over being bashed and often are afraid to make assumptions about someones sexuality (even though the automatic assumption is that someone is straight). So if people looked down on me for using these apps after being made aware of why they have become popular methods of meeting people then they can dismiss themselves from my life

[denizen mars]

As a gay man if you look down on me for using these apps I will laugh in your face. It is extremely difficult and potentially dangerous for LGBT+ to just meet and make moves on people in real life. We are constantly on edge over being bashed and often are afraid to make assumptions about someones sexuality (even though the automatic assumption is that someone is straight). So if people looked down on me for using these apps after being made aware of why they have become popular methods of meeting people then they can dismiss themselves from my life

hmm I agree in principle (although as I'm a lady it used to be more okc to find other ladies) but damned if all the people posting nothing but dick pics on that app make gay men seem like the sexual deviants society has claimed them to be :/ I'm sure there are some people who use the app for conversation and to find real relationships but it sure doesn't have that reputation

[Arsene Lupin]

my friends always tease me about it like ''hey how many matches did you get on tinder today ''if you're prom doesn't show up hit one of your girls on tinder'' and that kinda stuff, funny thing is after they saw me have success in it they got it too lol the irony

[ashenking]

hmm I agree in principle (although as I'm a lady it used to be more okc to find other ladies) but damned if all the people posting nothing but dick pics on that app make gay men seem like the sexual deviants society has claimed them to be :/ I'm sure there are some people who use the app for conversation and to find real relationships but it sure doesn't have that reputation

 

Both tinder and grindr prevent you from making nude pictures your profile pic, meaning you would have to direct message someone nude photos, which isn't exclusive to grindr/tinder, people do the same thing on any form of electronic communication (texts, Facebook, crude messages on okc. also the suggestion that dick pic= sexual deviant sounds like indirect homophobia. if its consensual who cares if someone sends another person nude photos, thats their business. The problem shouldn't be the photos but the lack of consent in sharing/ sending them in the first place. this is getting slightly off topic and i apologize for that

[Suzy Quatro]

I don't use it and think those apps are crap but I know several people who use them so I think they're not perceived as something bad.

[Alexander Wang]

I don't really use those things, but last night, I was with two guy friends. One of them started teasing me cause someone kept texting me, and he was like "I bet you're on tinder" and laughed. So I guess they do.

[Keudaeyeoooo~]

I used Tinder for a while a couple of months ago and never have I been met with a negative attitude about it. If anything I got more people to try it. Sure, the whole app concept won't work for everyone, but I don't see why anyone would look down on it?

 

They're some crazies on there, sure, but I've met crazies in bars, workplaces and school as well. I actually quite like the fact that you're able to talk to people for a longer time without having to meet them face to face... You get to know a person better that way and have more time figuring out what they're like. When you meet someone in a bar you hang out with them for just one evening... And then you already have to decide whether you want to keep hanging out with them or not.

 

Personally I feel less pressured by apps, so it works for me.

[mouse]

not really but im still scared to use it XD

[Heart and Seoul]

I judged the heck out of one person I knew that used it, mainly because he was using it as a pure hook up thing and the things he was saying about each person as he swiped were pretty disgusting. But in general I wouldn't look down on people that would use it like an actual dating site, it may not be my thing but online dating is pretty common now, I guess it was only a matter of time that they transferred that feature to phones.

[Sylar]

i will judge you if you use tinder and im your friend