Coming Soon to Tinder Dates: Panic Buttons and Safety Check-Ins

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Tinder will add a panic button to its popular dating app so users can alert police if they feel threatened on a date

Tinder wants to allow users to send out an alarm when bad dates turn really ugly. The popular dating app plans to start offering users an option to hit a panic button, receive check-ins to make sure they feel safe, and even summon authorities to their location.

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Some date phone out

'dating' apocalypse.

British parliament has dreadlocks and hats

The fear of having such a panic attack can be almost as bad as the panic itself.

bring my father and Aunts

Loool how defuq they gonna prove they look like their profile. Nobody looks like their profile.

Tinder’s New “Panic Button” starts a phone call from “Mom” on your dates phone so you can excuse yourself to the restroom.

rip full-on makeup bitches lol

I'm not worried about my date. I was nervous at first, but when we went upstairs to the Waffle House, I saw the .44 Magnum strapped to her thigh, and boy, do I feel safe....

By the looks, I don't reckon Tinder realises that by the time someone realises their date is the Norwich Strangler they're already but several moments away from being strangled.

i dont use dating apps. mmm i hate smartphones btw.

Hey, I really do look this awesome.

The news stories on this are going to get out of hand, fast!

? = dont go out

look like the photo they submit? without makeup?

Delete Tinder, its bad for you

Ummmm just spitballing here be maybe you should screen the people on the app so that you don’t need a panic button.

...cos if someone's trying to assault you there's definitely time to unlock your phone & find the app, right?

Now all they need is a panic button when the date sucks.

'Date'? ...isn't Tinder just a hookup app?

WHO STILL USES TINDER

hm.. if a panic button was a feature on the product roadmap that actually got pushed out means it was motivated/validated by significant user data... that... doesn't... sound.. bad.. at.. all...

nathanfielder daddyswatching

If there is an app out there that you need to add a panic button to, might just want to get rid of the app🤔

yea... thats not going to be abused at all...

sketchy

It'll be fun to watch how many fake calls get delivered and/or how authorities plan to make this work without turning it into a total waste of authorities' time and resources.

Can we hit that button if she doesn’t look like her pictures in real life?!

I'm thinking a stun gun works better.

They should also make phones that can dial 911 as a panic button for users to alert authorities if they feel unsafe on a date.

lol boys are fucked

hey_yulle

I’m future news: Who remembers Tinder? how truth in advertising destroyed an app

Ich verstehe den Ansatz, befürchte jedoch das Schlimmste, nämlich das junge Frauen sich selbst ein falsches Männerbild kreieren, wenn sie im Rahmen eines Dates die Wesensfestigkeit, vor allem, junger Männer, auf Teufel komm raus testen sollen (manche vielleicht wollen).

Just a thought? Try going to a bar with friends, chat/chatted up by someone who takes your fancy. No panic button required, you know what they look like. Used to work very well.

'Why are you looking at your Tinder app during our date?' It's never a good sign.

Here's a better solution:

Good for you tender👏🏽

The same person this would be used for could find your address through that facial recognition app if they really wanted to harass/do harm. Wow, what a time.

There are two buttons much needed. Ugly and Fat

They shoulda added that years ago... shit been filled with fake pages etc lol

Unlikely.

CNN should, too.

YEA!!! What could possibly GO WRONG!!!?

your phone already has a panic button for that: 911

'Did he just look directly into my eyes? I feel unsafe!'

Can Tinder add a panic button for when the lies Nevermind...we'd have to constantly be hitting it.

Cops will love that, woke generation will be hitting that button if someone says they are pretty.

Yeah, I fort that the other day. I fort she was gonna have her wicked way with me?

. Ive NEVER been on Tinder or ANY dating app Shitbags stealing my pics ? And CRIMINALLY pretending to be me ? Put them in jail if so

Threatened? How 'bout a 'fugly' button?

I already call the cops on weird/unsavory dates

Uhhhhhh, can’t they simply CALL the cops on their PHONE already

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