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ABSTRACT

Cellphone applications that are dating as Tinder have actually exploded in appeal in modern times. The app, the choice of one’s profile photos and an assessment of the expectations of potential Tinder matches on Tinder, impression management begins with a motivation to download. These methods take place in a technologically mediated environment of paid off cues and increased control, regional proximity and a lowered filtering process. My focus in this paper is this stage that is first of administration, which comes with both impression inspiration and impression construction. Particularly, do you know the impression that is pre-match techniques of Tinder users? We present the results of interviews with Tinder users when you look at the Netherlands. Individuals had been recruited using a Tinder profile that promoted the analysis utilising the University emblem and a short description. Interview questions centered on individual understandings of self-presentation practices and profile construction. The interviews also examined exactly just just how users evaluated their possible matches. Outcomes reveal users’ motivations for making use of Tinder are normally taken for entertainment to ego-boost to relationship seeking, and these motivations sometimes alter over time. […]