Thanks to technology, dating has evolved a ton over the years. You'd expect it to get easier, but social media seems to have made the ritual all the more complex. Dating prescribes too many rules already, which only makes us wonder why there are any in the first place? One of the stalest rules of the game is that men should make the first move, and two people (one of whom happens to be a co-founder of Tinder) have recently set to change that with the app Bumble.
As the antidote to Tinder, Bumble sets out modernize dating by allowing women start the conversation. Wolfe told Racked that the app seeks to reverse the "unwritten rule that it's not ladylike, or it's wrong [to make the first move]." Bumble follows an almost identical format as Tinder, only women must initiate contact with a match. You know those few blank conversations with matches that sit in your inbox on Tinder because neither user has reached out? You won't see any of those on Bumble because matches will disappear after 24 hours if you haven't made the first move! As much as reaching out first freaks us out, we kind of like the challenge...
Aside from changing the first move rule, Bumble also accomplishes a more practical feat and probably intentionally: keeping the creepy messages at bay. We'll preface this by saying that not all men on Tinder are sleazy, but a fair share are and will reach out with a vulgar remark or joke that's really an insult. Of course, your match's personality will come out after you send the first message, but at least you won't be flooded with these undesirable types of messages from the get go.
With Bumble, you can also see where a user went to college and where they currently work, which is another big plus. Also, according to TechCrunch, you get three backtracks that reset every three hours because we all know how agonizing it is to make the grave mistake of prematurely swiping left. We're liking this app already... we just wonder how it will go over with men!
Would you make the first move, collegiettes?
