In the September issue of Vanity Fair, several depressing lines of young adults where mentioned in its article entitled, "Tinder and the Dawn of the 'Dating Apocalypse". It has been said that many young adults find this playful app catastrophic and that "It Sucks" but they still could not stop swiping. NY Post shares the opinion Meredith, a sophomore at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. She said that, "It's not like just blind f-ing for pleasure and it's done; some people actually like the other person. Sometimes you actually catch feelings, and that's what sucks." To put things in a better perspective, the article explains that is not the app itself or the "catching" feelings that suck but it is the fact that "there is really no room for 'feelings' in the current mating culture."
In the days before, the hook-up culture was only prevalent in college bars, which the conservative men and women of our society laments. Now Tinder has made it even easier for men and women to use technology to find available partners in the vicinity "to hook up with" and one does not even have to go to a college bar anymore to begin with.
The source also says that Tinder has been providing men and women alike, single or not, infinite choices of sexual partners with no strings attached, making this app not only a dating apocalypse but rather a marriage apocalypse. The article also mentions that According to Dr. Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Marriage and Family Research at Bowling Green University, since 1970 the marriage rate has declined by almost 60%. Furthermore it was cited that, there were 31 marriages per 1,000 women in 2014, compared to 1920, when it was 92 per 1,000. There are a lot of factors contributing to the plummeting number of marriage, but sadly Tinder could one day have a catastrophic contribution to this rate.
