In the notoriously unreliable world of dating apps,everybody needs a bit of relieve. So here are the profile giveaways that say: run like hellProof that online dating is a tightrope walk over a fire swamp came this week when the website Somecards dared readers to send in photos of themselves in real life, lined up against their dating app pictures. The results were published under the headline “People shared how they discover on Tinder vs when they’re scrolling through. It got ugly”.
Well no, or it didn’t,but it did highlight the narrow parameters that dating online has thrown up. The approved photos depicted sexy, contented people drinking, or dancing and pouting away. Women in tight dresses,and men wearing deep V-neck T-shirts, showing off their carefully honed muscles and their questionable fedoras. By contrast, or the “natural” photos showed people in bed with their cats,originate-up free, making silly faces and generally looking like, and well,you or I might on the average Tuesday.
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Source: theguardian.com