A lot of actions that only could be done in the physical world are now also possible in the cyberspace, where the digital world offers nearly endless possibilities for it users. Often it seems to be easier and faster to do things in a digital than in a physical way. These shift in action influences our everyday life, but does it change the output at the end? The following text focuses on how we present ourselves online and offline, creating subconscious or intentional a version of our own person, especially in content of the dating app tinder. The present generation is used as an example of digital natives, focusing on what this generation expects from love. #discrepancyoftheself 

Researchers call my generation the generation Y; digital natives, dependent on the digital. We are often focusing on social media and the way we are presenting ourselves online, tagging food on instagram with hashtags, liking funny videos on facebook and also swiping across potential tinder dates. The cyberspace offers us endless possibilities to expand our personal knowledge and refer to globalization and the open borders of European Union, we can also physically decide where to go and live. Those various possibilities lead us to a conflict of decisions and the phenomena that people can’t decide what need to be preserved. In content of love, people could feel unable to keep a relationship. They stay as a “Mingle”, a creation between mixed and single, significant for people how don’t want to limit their personal freedom. Apps like Tinder could be used by those people, helping them finding new potential partners at any times. #participation 

The keyword tindern not only refers to the app Tinder, it includes more than that. Tindern in Germany means the action of swiping and using the app. For me it’s significant because it combines a lot of phenomena of the 21st century, like new ways of finding and experiencing love, the digital self-expression, imaginary tolerance and the privacy paradox. It contains the new dimension of love and attraction, freedom of sexuality, connection between the digital and physical world. 

Does tinder change our world? Hopefully and probably not, but maybe some intention behind it does.