TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook stories… everyone wants short videos to attract attention, and it seems that the trend has also reached Tinder. The fleeting encounters social network has decided to include a new section in its application with which to generate more interactions among its users without the need to make random matches. Another way to break the ice.
What is the Explore section of Tinder?
With the idea of offering what all social networks offer, Tinder has come up with a section in which users can upload quick and striking videos always embedded in a specific theme. Thus, users will be able to spend more time on the social network browsing through videos uploaded by users, focusing on topics that interest them with the sole intention of finding their better half in contexts in which they feel comfortable or have a special interest.
Is the essence of Tinder lost?
Until now, Tinder stood out for offering the possibility of meeting someone from complete ignorance. Only his profile photos and his interests were offered, so to achieve a first conversation, a match was needed with which to start the connection. Now the situation changes, and although the match part will remain the same, in Explore we will have a large list of themes in which users can navigate among thousands of vertical videos similar to those of TikTok.
These themes will be updated and recycled over time, and among them we can find some such as Foodie, Gamers, Artists, Entrepreneurs, Pets, Activism, Athlete, and many more. You will only have to enter these sections to discover the videos of the profiles that best suit your interests, and thus be able to refine the matches that you are going to distribute in your search.
This obviously makes you lose the ability to surprise users with random matches of completely random people, and if on the one hand it will allow you to define more the users' search for a partner, in the end you lose that touch of spontaneity... that real life gives you . What do you think?
Quick Chat arrives in Spain
After passing through the United States, the Quick Chat function also arrives in Spain, allowing users to start chat rooms with a time limit. The idea is that two people meet in a chat room and have a limited time to talk, so that in the end they decide at the last moment to match or end the chat instantly when the counter reaches zero.
The most interesting thing is that this function will only be available from 18:00 p.m. to midnight, so limited-time chats will only have one time slot in which users can use them. Will it become fashionable to chat at 18:00 like in the good old days of 56K modems with hourly rates? If everything is already invented...