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Rearranging Notions of the Digital and the Physical

Keywords of the 21st Century

Frerk Hillmann-Rabe, Lina Boes, Vanessa Richter, Katrin Schuenemann, Malte-Kristof Müller, Philine Schomacher, Elisa Budian, Lara Jueres, Authors

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Tindern - Conclusion

In my opinion, tindern is an example of the complexity of the world we’re living in, showing a lot of significant connections in the 21st century. It shows the difficulties and different opinions when it comes to love, difficulties that have always been there and probably will always exist, because finding a partner to spend your life with, can't be taken for granted. #perception

Some people might be afraid about the possibilities apps like Tinder or Grindr are offering and start judging about people meeting for sex. While focusing on the different opportunities and chances living in a technologically approved 21st century, judging about people’s decisions seems needless to me. We should be glad about our open-minded society which accepts so many different lifestyles and focus on the way we want to experience it. You want to use Tinder for self-affirmation? Go ahead. You used it to cheat on your significant other? Don’t blame the app, it was your decision. This list could be continued endlessly. 
My point is that blaming the technological improvements and beefing about the endless opportunities we have to express ourselves and our own individuality is useless because people were different before and will always be, only the presence and abilities have changed due to the invention of social media platforms. The best thing everyone you can do is to give your life a meaning – in the real or your social world. #discrepancyoftheself

Deciding is not always easy, especially by the variety of options. But while searching for a better partner and optimizing ourselves we should be satisfied with what we have and don’t take everything for granted. I don’t think my generation is unable to keep a relationship or tinder ruined the idea of love, I think we’re not able to choose, decide and be passionate when it comes to love. Maybe we must learn to go through rough times to estimate the good ones or just enjoy the possibilities the 21st century offers us. 
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