“That seems a little bit of a stretch,” said Aditi Paul, a Ph.D. Two hundred students isn’t a very large pool - the app is estimated to have 50 million subscribers - and is this even a question students would answer honestly? There’s certainly reason to be skeptical, experts say, but there might be a kernel of truth there.
Is that really true? More than half? The study made the rounds in the news.
Only 20 percent of the 200 students surveyed by campus jobs start-up WayUp said they used the app for casual sex, and less than a third said they were looking for a significant other. Tinder - that’s that hookup app, right? Another facet of the hookup culture on college campuses that has “disturbed and saddened” older observers, according The New York Times.īut is it possible students are also using Tinder not for sex but to find friends? More than half of college students in a recent survey said they were using Tinder and other dating apps (but mostly Tinder) to find friends, not hookups.
