Swiping me down my foot: Explicating relationship initiation on Tinder
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Leah E. LeFebvre, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Avenue, Dept. 3904, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. E-mail: email protected
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Tinder, a mobile relationship application (application), facilitates the initiation of brand new, potentially romantic relationships and encourages itself as a social finding platform dominating the U.S. With 1.4 billion swipes each day. This exploratory research investigates exactly how people participate in relationship initiation behaviors through Tinder and highlights how interpersonal relationship initiation, selection procedures, and strategic pre-interaction habits are evolving through contemporary-mediated dating tradition. Individuals (N = 395) had been recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to complete an online survey about their Tinder use. The research used descriptive statistics and thematic analysis to evaluate cause of finding and Tinder that is deleting procedures, swiping techniques, and Tinder hookup tradition. The commonplace view that Tinder is an intercourse, or hookup software, continues to be salient among users; although, many users use Tinder for producing other social communication connections and relationships, both intimate and platonic.