Tinder comes with a new feature that should help you avoid embarrassing situations. With ‘Block Contacts’ you can choose which phone contacts you would rather not encounter on the app. This way you avoid colleagues, family members or even an ex seeing your profile.
According to a recent study by Tinder 40 percent of users have already encountered their ex on the app. 24 percent saw a family member or colleague and 10 percent even his or her professor. Of course, most of those users would rather choose to avoid seeing such profiles and, above all, allowing them to see them.
‘Block Contacts’
After a test period in South Korea, Japan and India, Tinder will therefore roll out the new feature worldwide in the coming period.Block Contacts‘ from. With this you can go to your contacts in your phone via the settings and choose who you do not want to meet on the dating app. You do that by selecting their phone number. Even if that person doesn’t have Tinder at the time, the app will remember your preference and won’t show your profile even if they have created a profile. The test period showed that users blocked an average of about twelve contacts.
“We may not be able to save you from awkward coffee shop encounters, but we’re giving you more control over your experience on Tinder,” said Bernadette Morgan, Group Product Manager, Trust & Safety at Tinder. “We are introducing ‘Block Contacts’ as an additional tool for users to create new connections worry-free.”
Relationship
Although Tinder mainly proposes the new feature as a tool to avoid embarrassing situations with exes, colleagues or family members, many people seem to fear that it will also be used in a different way. ‘Block Contacts’ is the ideal way for those who are in a relationship and still secretly on Tinder to block acquaintances of his or her boyfriend or girlfriend.
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