A UMD student swipes through prospective matches from the app Tinder that is dating.

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Internet dating has always seemed strange if you ask me. As somebody who didn’t get yourself a smartphone until I began university, my intimate relationships had been constantly with individuals we came across and surely got to understand in college. With apps like Tinder and Hinge, all dating essentially becomes rate dating — even it’s likely the person you’re pursuing is still talking to multiple people if you’re only pursuing one person at a time.

A brand new dating app exclusive to University of Maryland pupils, called TerpMatch, makes it much simpler to date people you know to varying degrees. Rather than fulfilling strangers, TerpMatch helps reveal “missed connections” within the last few months of the semester with somebody you may have met in a course or even a club. The application doesn’t have chat feature on purpose, and it also could deal with a number of the larger problems that come with apps like Tinder or Hinge.

But conventional dating apps, specially for a university campus, make it more difficult to form relationships that are lasting. Along with being forced to find out if you’re interested in some body romantically or actually, you need to begin from scratch whenever getting to understand them. Continua a leggere