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I think this is bad. Tinder was built on anonymity, but many people have identifying information (knowingly or unknowingly) in their Instagram profiles. The t

I think this is bad. Tinder was built on anonymity, but many people have identifying information (knowingly or unknowingly) in their Instagram profiles. The two services were built for entirely different purposes. By allowing people access to the Instagram profile of a Tinder user, there could be some bad consequences. I have personally written an app that can take an Instagram feed and group pics by the physical address from which they were taken, if they have GPS enabled for Instagram [1] (I purposely limited it to the first 20 pics in this instance, but that limit is arbitrary). So Tinder users can now unwittingly go from basically anonymous to giving out their home address to people looking to sleep with them. Not awesome. [1] http://guiyui.com/username_geo.php http://guiyui.com/username_geo.php

nanidin 12y ago
Linking Instagram is not required, and most people I've seen while using Tinder have their Instagram handle in their profile text. This is just Tinder enabling their users to share what they're already sharing in a more convenient way.
manlio 12y ago
The awesome thing about Tinder is: a ton of hot girls use it; not just girls: hot girls. This sounds shallow, but it's not. They somehow managed to make them believe there is nothing wrong with looking for a hook up online (and that's true) but only if you look for it through the right channel. So at the end of the day no hot girls care about anonymity, they care about not being judged for their choices, and for the better or wrong we still need a hip app to make it happen. Which in turn is quite ironic: the philosophy was around since the 60s, but the implementation is unmistakably a product of contemporary capitalism.