Dating Apps- Swiping Away Through college

There are plenty of fish in the sea but Hundreds of matches later, where does it take us?

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The time a college student has is very valuable. School can take over and socializing isn’t a big part of their time, especially dating. Some want a special person in their life for a short time or a long time. Dating apps are easy to use but not so easy to find what one is looking for. It takes time and patience. There are both the negative and positive sides to many things, to the online dating world. Wanting to make it safer for students to be able to be comfortable with being open about talking and seeing someone while reducing the risk of feeling unsafe.

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Political-

There are laws required for apps to regulate to help prevent sexual predators and people with criminal backgrounds. Many who aren’t in college ask, why do young people need to be dating or seeing someone when they should be focusing on college? Well, it’s not always dating someone and wanting a relationship right away. We are all so emotionally, physically, and mentally drained with school consuming the body. Forgetting the feelings of being connected to someone whom you’re attracted to. It being short or long term. Still exploring who you are as a person.
Feeling safe while swiping and clicking around is always a concern. There have been various cases where a young person have been assaulted or abused, while on campus or off-campus.

One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college

There’s always a concern of being exposed, safety of our own body. Hearing and seeing that it’s always “fun” to explore but rarely saying what are the potential outcomes there are with one’s safety.

Economic-

There are two sides. A long-term and short-term outcome. A short-term outcome for a student user has the mindset of finding someone who is also a student user with a short-term outlook in a relationship. where they both don’t economically benefit from each other. As for the student user with the mindset of a long-term hoping to benefit from the other student user into growing together to later benefit each other. Or a student user whos looking for short-term changing their mindset to wanting a long-term outcome and the other way around.

well, you know I can probably find a match that would be a little bit more appropriate. But I pay the cost on that, which is in the short term I have to keep looking for somebody and I’m lonely. And in the job market, there’s something very a kin to that which is if I keep looking for just the right job and the employer keeps looking for just the right person, they end up having openings that are unfilled and I end up being unemployed. So loneliness in the partner market is basically similar to unemployment in the job market.

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Social-

Many may have a problem with the idea of being closed off. The idea is to have a platform where college students are able to join and find another college student they can match with. It’s up to the individual to make the move to create the connection. Everyone is there with different interests. Socially just for college students.

https://globaldatinginsights.com/2017/04/10/91-of-surveyed-college-students-use-dating-apps-for-more-than-just-hookups/

Technology-

Using their college emails in order to keep the doors closed for people who aren’t college students outside. Younger people are opened to online dating as it is on the go. Many don’t have time to sit down constantly to talk to a person and determine whether or not it’ll work out. There are apps out there that contain this concept. There are many factors to it and making the change to create such a place where college students can connect.

The majority of my friends are in college. As a social person, I take the risks and sometimes not taking the risks into consideration on what could happen due to my actions.

I went ahead and asked my friend at the University Of Washington. He’s a junior with a very busy college life. Takes time off to go to the occasional football games or parties on the weekends to socialize with his friends. When asking him “ well Tyler, do you have any dating apps on your phone or ever go out on dates” He definitely laughed, not at the question but that he doesn’t have a dating app or have been on a date since his high school prom date. His explanation was simply that there aren’t many platforms where he can join to find someone who’s going to accept him as being Bisexual and is afraid for his own safety. Safety in that there continues to be predators or people who will go against him if he opens up. Wanting to find someone who’s a student at his college with the same interests as him, knowing that the person is a verified student. “Its not that I don’t want to explore with other people who don’t go to the same college, its more that they’ll understand what its like being a student and there already a small connection there”.

In my eyes i’d be helping the young people in the dating world, achieve a safer way to date, through what my app that proves a safe place where students are able to date within their college as they wish.