Julian Suarez talks on the phone while hanging out with friends at Moccasin Bend Brewery.MILLENNIAL TOOLKITSome dating websites and apps to connect to your next conquest.OKCupid: A free dating website, where users upload pictures and a bio and can link their Instagram accounts. An algorhythm rates the percentage chance that you’ll get along with a prospective mate, based on questions like, “How would you feel if your boyfriend or girlfriend had dinner with their ex?”How About We: Mostly free, lets users suggest a date idea: “How about we … go to CiCi’s Pizza and play in the arcade.” “How about we … ride the 27 bus all the way to the end of the line.”Tinder: A smartphone app that allows users to browse pictures of singles nearby and message them. Swipe right for yes, left for no, and only message with mutual admirers.Down: The hook-up for hookups, linked to your Facebook account. Swipe to ask for a date, a hookup or swipe them away forever.Tingle: Check in when you’re out and about and see who’s in the vicinity. Grindr is another version of this for gay men.Lulu: This app lets women review the guys they have dated or hooked up with, using a number rating and hashtags.SnapChat: A picture-sharing site that lets users send a picture … that disappears forever after 15 seconds.
The last date Becky Ribeiro went on ended badly.
She had connected with him on Tinder, a smartphone app that connects nearby singles, and met him for drinks. Halfway through, she returned from the bathroom to find another girl talking to her date. When she got home, she did some research on the date thief and discovered they had mutual Facebook friends.
Ribeiro found a post by one of the mutual friends, commented on it and tagged the guy involved, which spurred a lengthy comment thread. Later that week, a picture posted on Instagram showed Ribeiro that the guy and the date thief ended up going out days later — after he had broken plans to meet Ribeiro. She blocked him from all her social media circles.
“Needless to say, I never heard from him again,” she says.