Have you gotten an Instagram DM from a guy you weren’t into on Tinder? Congrats, you’ve just been Tindstagrammed. Ugh.
Tindstragramming is just one of the many new ways to stalk people online that dating apps have given us. In a recent rundown of this dreadful phenomenon, Select All defines it as “The act of sneaking into someone’s Instagram DMs after failing to match with them on Tinder,” and if you’ve spent much time swiping left you’ve no doubt experienced it first hand.
Back in the good old days, when you swiped right on someone on Tinder but they didn’t swipe right on you, no match was made and that was the end. But in 2015, the dating app started letting its users link up to their Instagram accounts. It was meant to let you show off more of your perfectly curated life, but it also gave people a way to find you outside of the app. Read more...
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