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Like most people my age, I have made a Tinder. It started as a joke. A group of my friends and I were just hanging out one night and decided to see what it was all about.

I've heard from a lot of people who use the app that it feels almost like a game. You swipe through profiles at an almost race-like pace to see who you think is attractive. Rarely do people stop and look at what the person has to say on their profile.

It's a strictly based on the person's appearance, which comes with a lot of faults.

At one point, I considered using the app for what it was for: Meeting people, going on dates, doing the whole relationship thing. However, that's not what a majority of people using the app want to be doing. I can honestly say I cannot count the number of creepy messages I have received from random strangers.

It would always start out innocent. I'd get some joke or a simple hello from someone, and I would usually respond back with a 'hey, how's it going' type of message. Within minutes, the conversation would turn sour. The simple hello would become an invite to 'Netflix and Chill' or to show up at some house party their friend was throwing.

There was no, 'Hey, I think you're cool, let's go get coffee' messages like they have in every rom-com ever.

I kept my Tinder for about eight months before I decided to delete it. I met a lot of nice people through it, but I was never willing to commit to a date and to take the step to meet people in real life. My number one fear was that it would turn into some awful attempt at just hooking up.

Apps like Tinder and OkCupid don't really perform the way they are advertised. Though I do know a lot of couples that have met on those sites (my brother and his amazing girlfriend for example), I have also heard of way too many horror stories.

At least from my point of view, our generation is really into non-commitment relationships. Hookup culture runs rampant on campus. Which isn't a bad thing for many, but for people like me, it's the worst.

A report titled 'Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Mating and Dating Today' said that 'Ninety-one percent of college women say a 'hook-up culture' defines their campus.'

The study was commissioned by the Independent Women's Forum and released by SheThinks.org.

The study found that 'Forty percent of the women in the study said they had experienced a hook-up. One in 10 reported having done so more than six times. At the same time, 63 percent said they want to meet a future husband at college, and 83 percent said marriage is a major goal in life.'

So why is it that this is happening if women want more than just a hookup?

I think it's because that is how our culture is portraying things right now. Through media and entertainment, we see college as a time to let loose and be crazy. I've been told so many times that I shouldn't be overthinking things because 'it's just college.'

A lot of the times, when I talk to people about dating it's usually about how they hooked up with someone. Not that the date went well, or that they are excited to see where it goes. Hooking up somehow validates the date or whatever situation it was in.

I think the weirdest thing about hookup culture, though, is that it's rarely what people want. Most of the people I know have wanted their hookup to turn into more. Except when it doesn't, it just becomes a bragging right and the true feelings get brushed aside.

These apps only intensify the issue because you can never know what the person's real intentions are. In person you can read the signs better and can tell what exactly the other person wants. When it's online there is really no way of telling what is truth and what is fluff.

The fact that these apps are geared towards the millennial generation makes the whole thing really interesting.

Finding your next relationship online or through an app is less stigmatized as it once was. It's not just the weirdos of the early 2000s who online date; it's pretty much every generation.

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For me at least, I've only seen the negative of the apps. It's hard not to be skeptical when you receive creepy messages about them already being so 'into you' after only a few conversations. Or when they make up some weird excuse to try and hang out at some inappropriate time.

I think that these apps can be a really good tool for people that can't meet new people where they are. It brings people together from wherever they're in the world, which is something that would have been completely mind boggling 30 years ago.

So, though I think our current generation is more geared towards hook-up culture and that it's not exactly a great thing, there are still those great stories of people finding relationships that last.

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