Tinder’s kind of like that toxic ex-girlfriend that even though you broke up ages ago still slides into your DMs and coerces you to crawl back to her.
Tinder burst onto the scene in 2013, heavily targeting college students. Naturally, any dating app whose demographic majority consists of sophomores will be perceived as a hookup app.
Students aren’t exactly interested in entering into a serious monogamous relationship. Rather, kids aged 18-22 want to make risky decisions, meet new people, and avoid serious commitments at all costs. It’s this epoch of Tinder’s history that has tainted it with the stigma of being a hookup app, a label that despite a demographic change, it still hasn’t been able to shake off.
39% of Tinder’s current user demographic is made up of users ages 18-24. 41% of its users are between the ages of 25-34. By and large, Tinder is still geared towards serving young users more interested in a quick hookup than a serious relationship.
That would be fine and all, but at a certain age, dating fickle women interested in nothing more than a tongue war gets stale. You’re here, asking yourself how to delete Tinder because it’s finally time to grow up.
Why It’s Time To Delete Tinder
50% of Tinder users have never gone out with a match.
That’s because Tinder users treat the app as a game. Both women and men seek to boost their self-esteem by racking up matches. In fact, more users report using the app to boost confidence than to hook up with strangers. The reality is that Tinder isn’t a dating app. It’s a virtual dating game used for an ego-boost, not for finding your next romantic partner.
For whatever reason, you’re done with one night stands and superficial women that aren’t interested in long-term romances. Romantically you’ve grown up to the point where Tinder is nothing more than a distraction.
If you’re earnest about your search for a woman interested in engaging in a serious long-term romantic relationship, then it’s time to delete Tinder. The question is, how?
How To Delete Tinder?
You might think that deleting the app is equivalent to deleting your account. Wrong.
Ya see, Tinder purposefully makes it difficult for you to delete the application… but why? It’s simple really.
Tinder brings in money two different ways. It offers users a paid membership in the form of Tinder Gold or Tinder Plus which 2.5 million people pay for. The other revenue stream comes from advertisements. If you’re a free member you’ve no doubt accidentally swiped right on a Trojan ad or two.
To appeal to advertisers, Tinder must show that an adequate number of eyes will view a posted ad. The fewer the reported users, the less a company will pay to post their advertisement. This is precisely why Tinder makes you jump through hoops to delete the application.
To delete your Tinder account, follow these steps.
- Open the Tinder app
- Go to settings, found within the profile portion of the app
- At the very bottom of the settings page you’ll find the “Delete My Account” button
- After clicking the button you’ll be asked to either pause or delete your account, click “Delete My Account”
- Then you’ll be asked to provide feedback as to why you’re deleting the account
- After providing feedback click the “Submit & Delete Account” button
Only by following the aforementioned steps can you delete your profile. Remember that simply deleting the app is not the same as deleting your account.
Although right now you want to delete forever you may have regrets later on. If you want to deactivate your Tinder account -thus saving you the trouble of re-creating your account later on should you change your mind- you can always opt to pause your account. Pausing your Tinder account means that no one can view it. An account will remain paused even if the app is deleted.
What’s Next?
We both know why you’re reading this article – you want to delete Tinder. What I don’t know is why.
Most likely it’s because of either one of two reasons. The first being that you found a serious partner and as a sign of commitment you’re deleting Tinder. Congratulations.
Then there are those not so lucky as to have already found someone. For singles that have deleted Tinder, you’re more so fed up with wasting your time fishing in a dating pool full of fish you don’t care to catch. It’s to these people the next few paragraphs apply to.
Serious Dating Apps
Tinder’s by far the most popular dating app in America with 7.86 million users in the US. Despite it being the most popular, it’s not the only dating app that boasts a substantial amount of users. There are various apps out there that both attract users looking to find a monogamous relationship and are flush with users. Here are a few of my favorite.
Hinge
Hinge is the preferred dating app of many of my clients.
Although launched the same year at Tinder, Hinge has only begun to pick up steam within the past couple of years. Throughout its life, the app has gone through a number of changes from charging all users $7 to use the app in order to weed out non-serious daters to doing away with the swiping feature.
My clients prefer the app because it attracts users that are emotionally ready for a serious relationship. Hinge has positioned itself as the go-to app for singles looking for a long-term romantic partner. Its slogan is even, “the dating app designed to be deleted.”
Hinge is such a big hit in part because of its interface. Most dating apps -such as Tinder- highlight a user’s photos. Hinge on the other hand forces users to scroll past written bios -otherwise known as Hinge Answers– in order to see more images. Another boon is that Hinge users don’t have to score a match before you can message. The app enables users to like and write a comment before two users have even expressed mutual attraction.
Bumble
Bumble is, well, Tinder.
It looks like Tinder, has the same co-founder as Tinder, and was even sued by Tinder for “stealing” its swiping feature. Yet while the apps may look alike, they cater to different users. Bumble for one, is known widely as feminist’s alternative to Tinder. This being the case the app attracts more educated, friendly, and serious users than Tinder does.
Bumble’s unique in that it was built with the female user in mind. Once a match occurs, female users have 24 hours to message the male user. Should they not message, the match will expire. Men don’t have the option to message first, thus swapping gender roles and allowing women to hunt and men to recline and wait for the opposite sex to initiate.
Ditch Dating Apps
It’s true that meeting via a dating app is now the most common way to meet a romantic partner. However, in 2017 still only 39% of heterosexual relationships started with the help of a dating app.
This means that the majority of relationships are still being started IRL. But with online dating taking over the dating world it seems odd to have to meet someone IRL. Don’t fret, there are plenty of ways to meet people outside of dating apps, you just have to know how to do it.
There’s a myriad of ways to meet women IRL, but I’d like to highlight three.
Before dating apps reigned supreme, couples more often than not met each other through mutual friends. Your friends no doubt know you’re single, but that doesn’t mean they’re actively looking to set you up. Ask around to see if any of your friends have a friend of theirs they’d like to set you up with. If they don’t, no worries. You can still meet potential partners through friends by hanging out in different social circles and attending parties.
A more novel way to meet people is via non-dating social apps like Meetup. Meetup is a platform that enables users to create and join groups based on a user’s hobby. If you’re based in a metropolitan area, open the app, and no doubt you’ll find multiple active groups that you’d be more than happy to sign up for. Hiking, dance, and singles groups are just a few of the most popular groups you’ll find on the app. Being that humans are most attracted to people that share their interests, signing up and meeting people that are like-minded is a great way to meet single women.
The third way to meet people IRL is through gym classes. The hardest thing about meeting people in the real world is figuring out a reason to engage them. Walking up to a stranger at a cafe or park is odd because you have little in common to talk about. This lack of conversation material changes being that you two are in the same class. Talk about how difficult that class was, or how she got into cycling – any topic related to the group activity is worth bringing up.
Delete Your Tinder Account But Haven’t Reached Your Dating Goals?
You’re deleting Tinder because you want to make a change in your love life. However, deleting Tinder alone isn’t enough to fulfill your romantic needs.
At emlovz teach our clients the shortcut to finding their ideal match by MegaDating. MegaDating is our dating philosophy and it shapes everything we teach here at emlovz. Simply put MegaDating is dating prolifically with the specific goal of going on 20 dates in 90 days. This will give you ample women to compare and contrast so you can refine not only your dating skills but also who your ideal partner is.
To teach you how to quickly find highly compatible women in just weeks and become the most eligible bachelor in town you’ll team up with romantic experts, each skilled in their own unique area to support you.
Our Team
- Emyli (me), co-founder, curriculum developer, head coach, and I host two coaching sessions every week
- Thomas, co-founder, and coach. He’ll lead the biweekly Man Cave event where men come together to talk dating, bond with one another, and support other single men
- Brooke, and Audrey are mock date specialists. Go on a practice date with them (and receive feedback) before your next date
- Darshil is a confidence coach, wingman, and all around great guy to have on your team. Once student, now a teacher he knows what you’re going through and how to get the most from your dating life
- Hailey is your new stylist. She’s worked with celebs from every industry and is now about to raid your closet
- Tilly is our holistic sex & intimacy coach. She’ll help you get the most out of your sex life so you and your partner are happier between the sheets
- Renee is our anxiety dating coach. As a licensed therapist she knows the steps needed to turn you into a cool, calm, and collected dater
- Mia is our social media expert. Revamp your Facebook and Instagram profiles with her help and start meeting women online
Our Community
And look, we realize that the single life can be difficult. If accepted into our coaching program, Dating Decoded, you’d be joining a community of supportive men and coaches who are there to listen, support, and encourage you as you navigate the single life.
Our program offers every student a lifetime membership (as if you’ll need it) so the support won’t stop until you’ve found your ideal partner.
If you’re ready to find your forever partner, book a Zoom session with our team today. Together we’ll talk about your dating history, your goals and show you how our program, Dating Decoded, can help you find your ideal partner.