Seinfeld is a show that’s inevitably about nothing and everything, an endlessly fascinating and frustrating show about the complexities of interpersonal relationships, coincidences, and people who care about each other but are also totally self-involved. In Seinfeld’s book, SeinLanguage, published in 1993, he predicted the dating awkwardnesses that happen quite regularly on Tinder, the addictive dating app that takes what could be a pleasant afternoon of reading and turns it into an energy sucking, potentially emotionally unfulfilling hour or two of swiping, window-shopping for people who could be hot in-person but you never really know until you meet them, and chatting that really does suck up one’s data plan but also offers a safety of no last names or phone numbers. Seinfeld predicted Tinder in 1993, long before regular people were using the internet.
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