Do you want to meet the love of your life or make friends online? Why limit your search of fulfilling your dreams to your surroundings instead of letting the vast online world be your audience?
If you too have your eyes set on expanding your circle by meeting new people, engaging with them online or meeting the love of your life, then Tinder is the place for you.
In This Article, I will cover:
What Is Tinder?
Tinder is a social service media app that works for cellular users to reach out to the world and engage with new people.
It’s a digital alternative to traditional dating. It has even launched its web version in 2017, so now you can easily avail its services on your computer as well.
How Does Tinder work?
Up until a few years back, the concept of online dating and relationships was not considered an option that had the potential to reach audiences worldwide.
However, apps like Tinder have changed the norms of traditional dating and mainstreamed the concept of digital relationships.
By simply downloading the app on your phone, allowing the app to access the location of your device and by logging in through Facebook, you’re eligible to use Tinder.
From thereon, it is quite simple.
You simply have to create an attractive profile by including a picture of yourself along with other amazing imageries, adding details about who you are, your life, and preferences.
Tinder provides you with the opportunity to designate some core preferences based on which it suggests others profiles to swipe right or left. By swiping right, you indicate that you are interested in an individual and the left swipe is meant as a rejection or not interested.
How to Search for a Profile on Tinder?
Maybe you want to look for an old flame (someone you used to love or had a relationship with), put your suspicions to rest about your spouse cheating on you or simply want to reconnect with old friends.
Pro Tip: How to Lookup someone's phone number
There is always a temptation to search for profiles.
However, Tinder does not provide its services to find profiles of people you’re looking for specifically because it encourages anonymity. But there are some ways through which you will be able to find the profile you’re looking for.
So, without a further ado, let’s get started.
Tips on Finding Someone’s Profile on Tinder
Sometimes in life, you do things that make you think ‘why did I do that?’ and guess what, we all go through these types of phases quite a lot in our life. Finding someone’s profile on tinder is time-consuming, but hey, if you want to achieve something, you have to strive for it.
So, these below-mentioned steps will help you in your quest to find someone’s profile:
Tip # 1
Gather up all the courage that you have and be patient. Searching for a particular profile will take a while (it is better to make a cup of coffee before starting to work on it).
Tip # 2
You need to start with including the person in your search by having your preferences match his or her preferences/personality along with age and location. Identifying the age and the area where that person is most likely to be found is an excellent way of narrowing down the search.
Tip # 3
After you have made your preferences match with likes and dislikes of the person you are looking for, comes the laborious task of looking at all the profiles that appear in front of you.
Simply swipe left i.e. reject those who aren’t the person you’re looking for. It goes without saying that it is an extremely time-intensive task that can be no less frustrating. But with consistency and a determined mind, you have the chance to find the person you are looking for.
Tip # 4
If you’re unaware of that person’s exact location and have a more general area in mind then there is no need to worry about it. You can easily find certain apps that can change your location by altering the GPS on your mobile phone to the area where you believe that person is located.
Tip # 5
It is imperative to keep in mind is that Tinder does not offer its unpaid users the opportunity of limitless swipes. That option is only available to its paid customers.
Therefore, you must realize your ability to exhaust your swipes before treading on full guns blazing. You'll also come across people who’ll fit your preferences i.e. they might have the same name or age as the person you’re looking for and they could also be located in the same place. But wasting time on their profile picture is not going to help (swipe left until or unless the right profile appears in front of you).
Tip # 6
Remain persistent and keep motivating yourself. Don’t let discouraging thoughts such as ‘I should be doing something more productive’ stop you. Soon you’ll come across the person whom you were looking for and it is best to suppress your excitement by calmly swiping Right!
Tip # 7
Another way to locate a person is to search through other social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat. If you’re aware of their username then you can easily find their profile.
An important detail to remember in this case is that a lot of people on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter do not have their profiles based on their real names.
What does this mean? You can’t find a person who hasn’t registered on social media platforms with their name. Tinder profiles are linked to Facebook accounts, therefore finding someone on Facebook through their first and last name can also lead you to the person you’re looking to find.
Learn More: about finding someone on Google
Tip # 8
With an ever-increasing abundance of websites and applications designed to meet our virtual needs, there are websites on the internet that can help you locate an individual’s virtual footprint.
Some of these websites also offer the opportunity for those who want to protect themselves from scams to inquire into the information provided by certain individuals on Tinder and elsewhere. Catfishing is part and parcel of the social media experience and can lead to monetary loses or emotional distress. However, you do have the means to know for certain if a person’s picture truly belongs to him/her or is being used by a catfish through these websites.
There are online sites that provide you with the tools to find people you either want to catch up with or want to know more about. The usual way to achieve that is through providing the little information you have of them to the website in the form of a phone number, an email or a photograph and wait for them to do the work for you.
Using Catfishing Websites
There is no denying that catfishing is prevalent all over the social media and continues to be one of the growing dangers of online dating. It leads to people being duped by imposters into sending money by earning the sympathy of the sender as well as forming fake relationships online. It is very important to use dating apps safely (or really any app/website). There are too many scams out there so you need to be careful.
While some forms of catfishing are relatively harmless, it continues to be considered an unacceptable trend by online social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter among many others. However, now you are equipped with the tools to protect yourself against catfishing online and have more opportunities to find people you want to reconnect with.
You can do this by tweaking the details of your profile, preferences as well as searching for particular usernames on multiple social media websites. You also have the luxury of finding an individual you are trying to find by submitting his or her details on some certain catfishing website that help in this regard.
The Bottom Line
All in all, it can be said that finding someone’s profile on Tinder is possible but unpredictable. There are chances that you might end up finding the person that you are looking for, or there is also a possibility that you might not find that person.
There are platforms that can help you in accomplishing this daunting task and you can acquire their services in finding someone’s profile on Tinder. If your search is unsuccessful, try a people search website such as National Cellular Directory.
May the odds ever be in your favor.