Since you know little about the next person, there is very little connection when you first start chatting. The same kinds of questions have to be asked to multiple people before you find someone you actually like. The process gets boring and repetitive. Guys usually do not know what to say to a pretty girl, most guys start off with a creepy pickup line instead.

Since there are tons of options especially for women, going through the same process with multiple matches is tough, especially since a lot of people don’t reply right away. So you end up initiating conversations with multiple people in an attempt to find someone to talk to and in a while it gets overwhelming since multiple people respond at the same time. It even gets hard to keep track of who said what after an amount of time.

The apps are positioned and branded as dating apps but they are interpreted as hookup apps due to the entire user experience. How are you expected to chat with random strangers and hit it off with no initial connection? Straight males use the app to find flings, leaving straight females frustrated. Which is why you can see “Not here for hookups” on almost every other girl’s tinder profile.

The apps do not cater to interesting yet unattractive people or people that do not know how to click attractive photos of themselves. Because of the positioning, it leaves these kinds of people with little to no matches and thus drives away a considerable group of users. Being virtually attractive and actually interesting are two different things, and yet these apps only cater to one of these demographics.