Dating App Tackles Catfishing with Video Verifications, Relationship Types, Non-Binary Pronouns

By: Lee Rickwood

Being out of touch is one thing, being out of date – especially on a dating app – could be much worse.

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No one likes to be catfished online, so having up-to-date profile photos is important in online dating, a point of honesty, authenticity and safety.

Catfishing, the process of luring someone into a relationship by means of a fictional online profile, has no place on the dating scene (hatfishing, the apparent hiding of truth by means of wearing a chapeau in all photos, seems a goofier kind of misrepresentation, perhaps but not necessarily less worrisome), be on- or offline.

Video adds content and character to an online dating profile. Now, it can be used to add safety and security to the online dating scene at Tinder.

Members go through a series of prompts to make a 3-D facial map of themselves, which is then compared to submitted still photos. […]