A UMD student swipes through prospective matches regarding the dating application Tinder.

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Online dating sites has always seemed strange in my experience. As an individual who didn’t get a smartphone I met and got to know in school until I started college, my romantic relationships were always with people. With apps like Tinder and Hinge, all dating essentially becomes rate dating — even if you’re just pursuing one individual at the same time, it is most likely the person you’re pursuing continues to be conversing with numerous individuals.

A brand new dating app exclusive to University of Maryland pupils, called TerpMatch, causes it to be easier to date individuals you are already aware to varying degrees. Rather than fulfilling strangers, TerpMatch helps reveal “missed connections” within the last days of a semester with somebody you may have met in a course or a club. The software doesn’t have a chat feature on function, and it also could deal with a number of the larger problems that come with apps like Tinder or Hinge.

But old-fashioned dating apps, especially on a university campus, make it more difficult to form relationships that are lasting. Together with being forced to find out if you’re interested in somebody romantically or physically, you need to begin with scratch when getting to learn them. I understand that numerous college students aren’t in search of a relationship that is lasting Tinder surely makes setting up easier in a few methods.

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