8 Phases Of Tinder Use

The popular dating app, Tinder, is admittedly fun to use. You will, without a doubt, get addicted to the app, and in doing so, go through a roller coaster ride of emotions in the process. These emotional phases might look a little familiar...

1. Suspicious

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The suspicious phase occurs when you first hear of the Tinder app and decide you want to use it. What do you mean I have to log in through my Facebook? Will my friends see me? Are these real people? Do they just want to hook up with me?

2. Learning

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The learning phase occurs when you start using Tinder, but you have no idea how to use it. You're not really sure what to say in your bio, you don't understand what happens to people when you swipe them, you didn't know you could filter by location so you start off with people that are 346 miles away, but when you get the point of swiping, you move to the next phase...

3. Addiction

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You quickly enter the addiction phase once you get the hang of swiping. It becomes a little mini obsession when you're bored, or you get to a host of people you are NOT attracted to, but beware...this is where you hit

4. Regret

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This is the moment you accidentally swiped someone left when you meant to swipe them right all because you were swiping too damn fast! You beg the app to give you one more chance to make it right. You try your damnedest to remember that person's name, but you just can't. They are gone forever (or you can now pay $14.99 for the Tinder upgrade and "rewind").

5. Approval/Pleasure

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For every hottie you accidentally swiped left, there's always the hotties who reciprocate your right swipe or even better, they swipe you right FIRST! This feeling can only be ruined by 2 things...

6. Shame/Embarrassment

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You get to this phase when you see someone you would never want to know you are using Tinder, like your coworker, the friends of your ex, or even worse...your ex.

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7. Disgust/Resentment

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This phase occurs when you talk to someone who is just trying to hookup with you even though that's not what you want and you explicitly tell them that. I will add unattractive people who you accidentally swipe right and they swipe you right on purpose and start talking to you and people who say inappropriate things to you to this phase.

8. Shock

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This phase is the only way to explain the feeling you have when you finally run out of new people to swipe in your area. You may try to expand your radius, but more than likely you will have to wait for more Tinder users to be in your area.

What would you add to this list?