Tinder Adds A Panic Button So That Users Can Protect Themselves Against Catfishing

Dating can lead to all kinds of horrible consequences, the mildest outcome is that you and your date do not click, but in some more serious scenarios, even physical damages can be inflicted on one of the parties.

Tinder, as a popular dating app, is aware of the risk and on Thursday, it introduced a new feature that can help those seeking e decent date on its platform protect themselves when something goes wrong.

What Tinder does is to integrate with Noonlight, an app for personal safety. Users can now upload the needed information on upcoming dates before they actually come to the dates in person in real life.

And when something goes wrong, the users can press a panic button. After happens next is the emergency services will be contacted with the data on their locations and other details related to the date.

Another addition is photo verification to deal with catfishing, which is when someone fakes his or her persona to lure other users into a date.

This feature works like this. When users want their accounts verified by Tinder, which increases their credibility, they can submit several selfie photos to prove that their avatar is legit.

Those who pass the test will have a blue checkmark to show that they have been honest, at least with the photo of them on the app.

Tinder is not the first company to go for this kind of protection. Ride-hailing firms like Lyft and Uber have been criticized a lot for putting their users in danger, thus implementing similar approaches of a panic button for their customers to protect themselves.

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