Tinder adds “panic button” For dates that go wrong

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Tinder adds a panic button for dates that go wrong
Published:January 25, 2020 1:40 PM EST

Tinder is following in Uber’s lead in adding in-app safety features for dates that become unsafe.

The dating app is adding new safety features, including a panic button that alerts safety authorities if something goes wrong during a date. Tinder has also added the ability to check-in, telling friends where the daters are.

US users will receive the free new tools next Tuesday in a new section of the app called the Safety Center. Match, the dating conglomerate that owns Tinder, will roll out the new tools to its other US dating services later this year. The company also owns OkCupid, Hinge and the flagship Match.com.

The tools will be powered by Noonlight, a safety platform that Tinder made an investment in. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

To use the new Safety Center tools, users will have to also download Noonlight and enable the app’s location-tracking tools. Users’ dates information, such as location, will have to be manually entered into a new “Tinder Timeline” tool that can be shared with friends.

If the user feels unsafe, they will have to open the Noonlight app and press a button that discreetly contacts Noonlight dispatchers. The dispatcher will first send them a text so they don’t have to vocally talk for help. If that’s unanswered, Noonlight will send a code and call them. If there are no answer, Noonlight will dispatch emergency services.

The aim to let users ask for help without raising suspicions during the date. That’s why it’s panic tools are located within the Noonlight app.

Location-sharing apps have come under scrutiny recently for not selling users’ information to advertisers. Match won’t have access to Noonlight’s location data and Noonlight claims it doesn’t sell user data. Users can also switch off location services within the phone’s settings when they aren’t on dates.

Tinder is also testing a new photo verification tool so users can ensure they’re talking to someone real before they go on the date. A user will have to submit picture certain poses. Tinder’s AI technology will compare those photos to previously submitted pictures. Profiles will have a check mark for those that complete the service. Tinder said the tool will become widely available later this year.

Match said it’s the first dating company to integrate in this type of service. Dating apps and ride-hailing companies, like Uber and Lyft, have been blasted for putting users in unsafe positions. Both of those companies have rolled out similar so-called panic buttons and safety tools to address those concerns

:mjlol:

That button is gona get abused.
 

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This gone be the smiley sign .... :damn:.

It's a smart feature to have, however, how many false situations there going to be?

They should be sure they indicate that this tool is for fear of injury, serious injury, kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault, rape, death or criminal activity........NOT frivolous shiit.

But we know Fukkery is going to abound...:snoop:....:mjlit:
 
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makes sense


lots of women from tinder have told me that nikkas are true weirdos out here
I'm sure the women are just as weird. I mean... it's a dating app. That's the risk you take. meeting up online in a one on one situation without evaluating the person - "in person", before all that. Lots of socially awkward people with limited social skills, meeting up online doing socially awkward shyt.
 

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all i see on tinder is "i'm not here for a hook up"

tinder is trash

you wanna fukk?

use twitter and thryst
:mjlol:Then why are they on a dating site.
That means they hooked up before and got tossed or ghosted.
The equivalent of "I don't usually do this buttttt ...."
 

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I'm sure the women are just as weird. I mean... it's a dating app. That's the risk you take. meeting up online in a one on one situation without evaluating the person - "in person", before all that. Lots of socially awkward people with limited social skills, meeting up online doing socially awkward shyt.
I smashed a chick off tinder in the summer and she told me nikkas be wylin. told me she met up with one guy and he literally hopped in the car and whipped his dikk out :mjlol: one of my homies sent screenshots to the groupchat of a chick whos tinder pics consisted of screenshots of a previous tinder match holding revenge porn over her head :stopitslime:
 
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