Dating apps are the new Cupids, urging a swipe-happy generation to find love, sex and romance on the move.
FRIDAY NIGHT. Single in Mumbai. Bright lights glitter outside the window. Everybody and their partner somewhere out there having fun. Boredom has a new name: bedtime. That hour when the mobile phone is one’s best friend. The index finger automatically positions itself, to do the best thing it has ever done: swiping the screen—left, right, up, down. Who knows, of the billions of strangers out there, one swipe might just lead to that chance meeting of true love. Or at least a new Best Friend Forever.
The mobile screen lights up to a smiling face. Below that: Name, Age, Date. City. Height. And an explosion of identity-defining hashtags: #voracious gourmand, #animal lover, #sports nut, #whiskey connoisseur, #health freak, #party hopper, #avid reader.
HE: Hi. U r the most beautiful girl i’ve ever seen. Hit me up
SHE: Ha ha. How many other girls got that at 12.30 am?
HE: Just you. U r a stunner. I am just a km from you.
SHE: You don’t know anything about me.
HE: You a snorer? A psychopath?
SHE: You a murderer?
HE: Ha ha. I’m actually Superman ;)
SHE: Ha ha
HE: So want to sneak out for a drink?
SHE: I want to jump off the terrace. save me?
HE: Sure! What’s your number?
SHE: Why shld I tell you? Becoz u r superman?
HE: I was also the carom king of my college :)
SHE: Ha ha (number)
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