So you’re trying Tinder for the first time, and surprise! You have a really terrible time with it. Either you’re just not connecting with anyone who’s on, aren’t really sure how to use the app itself, or — heaven forbid — a fellow user turns out to be a complete creep with stalkerish tendencies. There are many things you can do to assuage the situation, but one of the first suggested by the company is to contact them. So you do, but you never hear back.
Maybe that’s because you contacted the wrong Tinder. At least, that’s the theory advanced by the New York Post‘s Page Six, who interviewed Katie Sturino — the woman behind the wrong Tinder:
Since the dating site exploded, Sturino’s Tinder Inc. site has been flooded with errant e-mails “from people who can’t get dates, don’t understand the app, media requests and someone who just wanted to know if you could find friends on Tinder.”
The occasional messages from panicked Tinder users are usually harmless, but every once in awhile, Sturino receives something that’s totally disconcerting:
“This man is banging on my apartment door and said my name,” complained a terrified woman who made some “fun comments” to a man on the hookup app before he allegedly got aggro. “The police escorted him out . . . somehow he got my address. This man is a stalker! Help! I have a little one and I’m scared!”
Even though Sturino adopted the brand in 2008 — four years before the dating app’s launch in 2012 — she says she’ll likely change her boutique’s name “because everyone always thinks I am the dating app.” Meanwhile, those of us who have never used (and will never use) Tinder don’t really know what all the fuss is about.
(Via Page Six)