From WIRED, November 17, 2015, by Alana Hope Levinson:

“Being single in 2015 often means cynically scaling the walls of the internet and praying for a foothold. “Winning Tinder is about mastering the app’s affordances, its game mechanics, the dissociative buffers that make it possible to play,” wrote Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser in The New Inquiry earlier this year. “You must regard other people on Tinder — and yourself — as avatars.”