How is Tinder going for you?

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As someone who has never had a one-night stand and hasn't used the web/tech to find dates - I find the Tinder stuff interesting and almost shocking - I am just old-school! - you really just swipe to like each other, have a chat, and meet up for sex? As basic as that?
Anyone with more details care to elaborate more? How do you know if you are meeting up with and letting a total psychopath/rapist/whatever into your house? Or do you meet somewhere neutral to evaluate them first? Is it mainly for hooking up or do people actually try to find legit partners?

Just curious how Tinder works... not sure I would ever try it!

It's slightly more involved than that, but basically yea.

• You get a card with a person's photo, name, age, and current job and/or schooling. You can swipe right to like, left to dislike, or up to "super like."
  
• Tap the card and you can see more photos, a short summary (about 500 character limit or so), and more schooling. You can also like, dislike, or super like from this detailed view too.
  
• Repeat until daily limits are reached and/or bored.
  
• Only if both like and/or super like each other will you get a message that you matched, then you can message each other like a normal dating site and go from there.
  

The success or failure of converting the match to a meetup and anything more is dependent on the usual dating site factors ("text game" and/or "Facebook game" probably works here), but the initial match is (in theory, at least) almost entirely superficial. People (usually women for some reason) will try to subvert the "instant hookup" intent of the site with "professional networking" and such, but the trend is in favor of offsite hookups over non-sexual and non-romantic purposes.